Princess Diana?s butler Paul Burrell (photo) said on the day before Britain?s Queen Elizabeth told him she had been concerned about Diana having a long-term relationship with Dodi al-Fayed.

Giving his third day of testimony at an inquest into their 1997 deaths in a Paris car crash, Burrell explained how he had requested a meeting with the monarch after Diana?s death because he was concerned that Diana?s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was shredding so many of Diana?s documents.

When pressed in court about what Queen Elizabeth had told him at the meeting, a reluctant Burrell said the queen was concerned that the princess had become ?rather over-excited.? Asked what she said about a long-term union with Dodi, Burrell replied ?Her Majesty was concerned about the future.?

Luxury storeowner Mohamed Al-Fayed alleges that his son and Diana were killed by British security services on the orders of the queen?s husband, Prince Philip.

Fayed believes her killing was ordered because the royal family did not want the mother of the future king having a child with his son. He alleges that Diana?s body was embalmed to cover up evidence she was expecting a baby.

Al-Fayed?s lawyer Michael Mansfield asked Burrell about suggestions that Prince Philip, notorious for making tactless gaffes in jest, had called Dodi ?an oily bedhopper.? Burrell said of Prince Philip: ?He has made a few mistakes in the past. I cannot possibly think he would say that.?

The disappearance of confidential court papers prompted the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, to issue a stern warning on Wednesday to anyone caught removing evidence.