Blair aide flirted with Diana
09/07/2007 15:11  - (SA)  

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London - Labour's former communications chief Alastair Campbell described how he flirted with the late Princess Diana in his diaries The Blair Years published on Monday.

In extracts placed on his website, Campbell described how Tony Blair stood in the background and Cherie Blair looked impatient as he talked with the "drop-dead gorgeous" princess in 1995.

"She's standing there, absolutely, spellbindingly, drop-dead gorgeous in a way that the millions of photos didn't quite get it," he wrote.

"She said hello, held out her hand and said she was really pleased to meet me, so I mumbled something back about me being more pleased."

"It would make a very funny picture if there were any paparazzi in those trees, she said."

He also recounted how shocked Blair was at the news of her death two years later.

"I don't think I'd ever heard him like this," he wrote.

"He was full of pauses, then gabbling a little, but equally clear what we had to do."

- Reuters

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