Cherie Blair Reveals How Tony Used Miscarriage for Iraq Spin
By Robert Winnett / Telegraph
In the latest extracts from her memoirs, Mrs Blair says she spoke to Alistair Campbell, the Prime Minister’s media chief, within hours of the miscarriage in 2002.
Mr Blair and Mr Campbell told her that they would be announcing news of the loss to avert false speculation about an early invasion of Iraq.
The extracts from Mrs Blair’s memoirs – Speaking for Myself – also reveal highly personal and embarrassing details about the couple’s private life, leaving very little to the imagination.
She says that the couple’s fourth baby, Leo, was conceived in 1999 during a trip to Balmoral during which she had failed to pack her usual contraception.
In the memoirs she also reveals details of some uncomfortable meetings with members of the Royal Family, although she says she found the Queen "very approachable”.
In 2002, she recounts how her radiographer was surprised to find that she was carrying a fifth child at the age of 47.
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