Prince Harry admitted in court on Tuesday to calling his mother Princess Diana’s controversial former butler, Paul Burrell, a “two-faced s–t” in a heated voicemail to his older brother, Prince William – but was forced to defend his recollection of the episode in his memoir.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, was questioned in the London court about a 2003 article in The People that alleged he used the unflattering epithet during an argument with William over a potential meeting with Burrell, SkyNews reported.

“I was leaving voicemails for my brother…and that is a term I used to describe Mr. Burrell, yeah,” Harry said when pressed by Andrew Green, the lawyer representing The Mirror, about the alleged conversation.

The flame-haired prince is in court this week as part of his ongoing lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which he accuses of using phone hacking and other unethical tactics to obtain information on him from his teenage years through the present day.

In his 55-page witness statement released alongside his in-person testimony, Harry said that he and William, 40,  “had very strong feelings about how indiscreet Paul had proven to be with the way he had sold our mother’s possessions and how he had given numerous interviews about her.”

Burrell, 64, was Princess Diana’s butler from 1987 until her death in 1997. He has been frequently quoted over the years as a bombastic source on both the late princess and the royal family.

In court, Harry said he was “firmly against” meeting with Burrell in his late teens.

But Green pointed out that the prince’s memoir, “Spare,” includes a note saying that he would have liked to meet with Burrell, SkyNews said.

“There’s no suggestion [here] that you were firmly against the meeting,” Green told the prince.

“No, because I wrote it when I was 38 years old – in this story, I was 18,” Harry explained.

Harry was forced to defend the contents of “Spare,” which was published in January, multiple times while on the stand. 

Earlier on Tuesday, he admitted that an anecdote about a boarding school friend selling a story about his haircut was based on an “assumption” – and that, years laters, “it seems that wasn’t the case.”

Harry, who now lives in California with his wife Meghan Markle, 41, and their two children, is the first senior royal to testify in court in 130 years.

He arrived at the proceedings on Tuesday after missing the first day of the trial on Monday.

In the extensive witness statement released by his attorneys, the prince also accuses the press of peddling hurtful rumors about his paternity “so [he] might be ousted from the royal family.”

“I was a child, I was at school. These articles were incredibly invasive. Every single time one of these articles was written, it would have an impact on my life, the people around me,” he later told the court.

Harry is expected to spend all of Tuesday and most of Wednesday on the stand.

Other senior members of the royal family – including Harry’s father, King Charles III – are reportedly “bracing” for potential bombshells.

“I can’t imagine anyone is pleased,” one source said of the Palace’s response to Harry’s upcoming testimony.

Harry and Meghan have been famously estranged from King Charles, Prince William, and the rest of the Windsors since they stepped down as working royals in 2020.

“Harry would see himself as fighting their battle too, to protect the reputation of the monarchy,” another insider told Page Six of his courtroom crusade.

The MGN case is the first of the prince’s multiple press lawsuits to go to trial – and one of three involving alleged phone hacking.