'Blair wanted Diana to be ambassador for Britain'

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — The forthcoming diaries of Tony Blair's former press chief reportedly contain details about how the former British prime minister wanted princess Diana to be an ambassador for Britain.

Blair secretly met the princess before and after he became prime minister in 1997, the Daily Mirror said, quoting a "well-placed source" who had seen parts of its former political editor Alastair Campbell's book "The Blair Years."

But the meetings were so sensitive they had to be held away from the heart of British political life, Westminster, because as a member of the publicly apolitical royal family Diana could have been accused of politicking, it said.

"Campbell's diaries tell how Blair and Diana always held their private meetings away from Westminster," the...