A FORMER bodyguard of Princess Diana has told how she claimed she was reduced to tears by Tony Blair.

Lee Sansum, 54, said the princess was no fan of Mr Blair, who was prime minister at the time on the alleged incident.

The globetrotting bodyguard, who now runs an award-winning martial arts academy from his home in the Highlands, added: “She hated him.

“She told me, and she told others, that she went to him looking for protection for Prince William and Harry. She asked him to get the paparazzi off the boys. And she said he told her ‘As long as they’re on you, they’re not looking at my government. Suck it up, get on with it’.

“She hated him and she left the meeting and she said: ‘I wasn’t crying until I got to the car. I would not give him the satisfaction’.”

Mr Sansum also claimed Princess Diana’s close protection officers had a sweepstake running on whether or not she was pregnant to Dodi Al Fayed.

He said this was at a time when Dodi’s father Mohammed Al-Fayed let the couple use his yacht in the Mediterranean.

Mr Sansum, who worked for the Al-Fayed family from 1995 until 1999, added: “We ran a sweepstake among the boys as to whether she was pregnant or not.

“This was before it was suggested in the newspapers.”

Mr Sansum also raised questions over the deaths of Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul, who were killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

His friend and fellow bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones survived the crash but was seriously injured.

Mr Sansum said: “Everyone remembers where they were when the news came through. I was in my garden in Lancashire, clearing up after a family barbecue.

“Why they were not wearing seatbelts, I don’t know. No-one on the team ever went without their seatbelts on.”

“Trevor cannot remember because of his injuries. He can’t understand it”.

However, Mr Sansum said he does not believe conspiracy theories linked to the crash. He added: “It was probably just a tragic accident.”