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Tony Blair: Diana was a manipulator like me
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Sep 01, 2010 07:27pm |
| Category | Statement |
| News Date | Aug 31, 2010 11:05pm |
| Description | Diana, Princess of Wales was down to earth, charming and intelligent, but also stubborn and prone to be over-emotional, says Mr Blair.
He recalls meeting the Princess at Chequers in July 1997, the month before she died, saying he felt an uneasiness about her relationship with Dodi Fayed but could not put his finger on why. He says she did not appreciate him broaching the subject with her.
“We were both, in our own way, manipulators” — good at grasping the feelings of others and instinctively playing on them.
Giving his first account of what happened on the night she died, Mr Blair says he was woken at 2am on Aug 31, 1997 by a police officer at the end of his bed, who told him that Diana had been badly injured.
He knew from the beginning that her chances of survival were poor, and was told of her death at 4am. Mr Blair says that, without wishing to sound callous, he wanted to “manage” the situation and shape the public grief that would follow. |
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