Bryan Adams had an affair with Diana, claims rocker’s ex-girlfriend
LONDON (CP) — A former girlfriend of Bryan Adams claims he had an affair with Diana after her divorce from Prince Charles that caused a strain in her relationship with the Canadian rock star.
In an interview with a Danish magazine picked up Wednesday by two British tabloid newspapers, Cecilie Thomsen said Adams cheated on her with the Princess of Wales in 1996.
Adams reportedly called the claim conjecture.
Thomsen’s allegations in the latest issue of Billed Bladet come after former royal butler Paul Burrell wrote in his recently released book that Diana had nine secret lovers, renewing speculation that Adams was among them.
“I knew Diana had an affair with Bryan,” the Danish actress was quoted as saying in Britain’s Daily Mail.
“Bryan knew Paul Burrell very well and Paul was part of the inner circle around Bryan, and he also introduced him to Diana. The first time Bryan met Diana, I wasn’t invited,” Thomsen said.
“Ours was a stormy relationship and Bryan’s affair with Diana didn’t make it easier. The affair was in 1996 after Diana’s divorce with Prince Charles.”
The story of Adams’s affair with Diana was carried on the inside pages of the national Daily Mail and London’s Evening Standard. Both newspapers carried a statement from Adams describing Thomsen’s claims as speculation.
“Miss Thomsen doesn’t know anything about my friendship with Diana, nor does anyone else,” he said. “Anything you have read from these reports is pure conjecture and supposition.”
Thomsen, 28, is probably best known for her appearance in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. Her 12-year relationship with Adams ended last year.
The couple attended Diana’s funeral together. “I was sitting in the church with mixed emotions,” Thomsen said.
Adams, 44, is on tour in Western Canada, with his next concert scheduled for Thursday in Kelowna, B.C. He will also take part in the half-time show at the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup in Regina on Nov. 16.
In his book A Royal Duty, Burrell doesn’t name Diana’s suitors, but describes some of them as “a sporting legend, a leading musician, a novelist, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a billionaire who ran his own empire and one extremely famous politician.”
Adams, born in Kingston, Ont., has long been rumoured to have had an affair with Diana, with the allegations first surfacing in a 1998 book written by Christopher Anderson, called The Day Diana Died.
Diana was said to be a fan of Adams’s music. She met him at a concert with Charles in England in 1986.
Adams and Burrell reportedly became friends, with the musician offering the former butler a place to stay when he lost the home he lived in as a royal servant after the princess’s death.
The rock star is also an accomplished photographer: the new 49-cent stamp in Canada features a picture of the Queen taken by Adams, one of several photographers invited by the Queen to take her picture during last year’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)