Campbell: Blair was bitter Diana used him to meet me

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL has claimed that Tony Blair was “p----- off ” when Princess Diana used a dinner with him to ask if she could meet his campaign director.

Mr Campbell said that the former prime minister was left angered after the first thing she said upon meeting him was: “What’s Alastair Campbell really like? I’d love to meet him.”

Speaking on the Table Manners podcast on Wednesday, Mr Campbell said the encounter had left Blair “really p---off ” because he was left thinking “I’m meant to be the main guy”.

He recounted that Mr Blair and his wife Cherie had met the Princess at a dinner party in Chelsea, which they were invited to by a “posh establishment” individual.

While talking to Mr Blair at the dinner, she apparently requested to meet Mr Campbell that night after the meal.

The 65-year-old said their encounter that evening was so successful that it led to more dinners between Mr Campbell and his partner, Princess Diana and the Blairs.

Mr Campbell described how the meeting took place when she came out to meet him in the street as he waited in a car after the meeting with the Blairs. “Next thing, tap on the window and Tony’s standing there. He says ‘there’s somebody that wants to see you’.”

Mr Campbell, who hosts the podcast The Rest is Politics, said that Princess Diana then came outside to meet him.

He said: “So we’re standing in the middle of the road with cars whizzing by, chatting in the street. Diana said ‘god, wouldn’t this be a great picture?’”

Mr Campbell said his partner, Fiona Millar, had told him she thought Princess Diana had “fancied” him.

He added: “Tony couldn’t decide whether he was a statesman or a flirt. I had no such trouble.”

He also told how the Princess once “loved” to make tea for him. “It was a perfect cup of tea,” he said.