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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

No 10 blocked release of Tony Blair’s call with French president after Princess Diana’s death

Dozens of other official documents about the death of the Princess of Wales were released but details of the call between Tony Blair (right) and Jacques Chirac were blocked - (PA Archive)

Downing Street refused to release details of a conversation between Tony Blair and French president Jacques Chirac following the death in Paris of Diana, Princess of Wales, newly-declassified government files have revealed.

Papers released to the National Archives at Kew, west London, reveal that No 10 was happy to release dozens of other official documents relating to Diana’s death and the arrangements for her funeral under the Freedom of Information Act.

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