A Royal butler who served Queen Elizbaeth for more than decade has revealed the mysterious item he hid in his pockets which helped land him a job at .

said the late Queen was a fan of his after her beloved corgis warmed to him, and it eventually led to an 11-year stint with the monarch, before working for Charles and Diana. However, he's since confessed that when she asked to have a meeting with him a year after he became a regular staff member at the palace, he hid sausages in his pockets to get on the pooches' good side.

"That morning in the staff canteen we had sausages for breakfast," he explained. "I wrapped two up in a paper napkin and put them into my tailcoat pocket. I thought ‘she’s got ’. Went upstairs, knocked on the door, she said ‘Come in’.

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The butler gave more details on the pairs conversation and his relationship with her dogs, the . He added: "She said ‘You’re Paul’. I said ‘Yes, Your Majesty’, and I bowed. She said ‘Do you like dogs?’ I said ‘I love dogs’. She said ‘Well let’s see if they like you’. So she handed me all the leashes.

“‘This is Smoky, this is Shadow, this is Piper, this is Chipper, this is Jolly, this is Socks. I thought ‘Oh my goodness, I’m never going to remember all these names’.

"There were nine corgis and the labrador Jade. So ten dogs altogether. I go down to the garden entrance. I thought ‘I’m going to take them all of the leads and I’ll run across the lawns and they’ll follow me’. And they did, because they could smell the sausages.

“So I went behind the greenhouse and gave them all a bit of sausage and then ran back, and I could see the net curtain twitching. And when I got back into her room she said ‘that’s quite extraordinary, they do like you - I think I’ll keep you’. She kept me for eleven years. What a lovely lady she was.”