Of the three men she had in her life, Cherie Blair chose former British PM Tony Blair with whom she discovered her 'true love' on the 'empty top deck of a double-decker bus'.
LONDON: Of the three men she had in her life, Cherie Blair chose former British Prime Minister Tony Blair with whom she discovered her 'true love' on the 'empty top deck of a double-decker bus'.
The wife of Tony Blair, in her memoir 'Speaking for Myself', wrote that she fancies him "rotten" and that the Labour leader proposed to her while she was cleaning a toilet.
The excerpts from her autobiography serialised in 'The Times' on Thursday, Cherie, who already had two boyfriends besides Tony, describes a Christmas dinner hosted by Lord Irvine of Lairg, who was then head of the future couple's chambers in 1975.
After the dinner, "Tony and I took the bus... It was a double-decker and we went upstairs. It was completely empty and by the time we got off we knew each other better than when we'd got on. And even better the next morning."
Following her bus experience with Tony, Cherie said that she was left with "three men in my life."
"Tony knew about John (Higham) but not about David (Attwood). John knew about David but not about Tony, and poor David fondly imagined I was living a quiet life of hard work in dreary London," the article quoted her as saying.
On why she chose Tony, Cherie said "I have thought about what made me choose Tony. It was partly chemistry - I fancied him rotten, and still do - but partly because I thought even then that he had something.
"Behind the charm there was a steely quality to him. Frankly, he fascinated me as I had never met anybody quite like him before, not somebody who could give me a run for my money," the better half of former British Prime Minister said.
Detailing on how the proposal from Tony came about, Cherie said: "In September 1976, we drove to Italy. We started off in Calais and then made our way right down through France and Switzerland to Italy, to Chianti country, where we had rented the bottom half of a villa.
"Two weeks ended all too soon and the last morning I was up early, scrubbing the floors and generally leaving the villa as I would hope to find it. Naturally, Tony was nowhere to be seen. My last task, inevitably was the toilet.
"So there I am, on my knees, cleaning the toilet and Tony comes up behind me. 'You know, Cherie, I think maybe we should get married.'"
Reader, "I said yes," she said in her memoir.
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