Fearing protests, Blair shelves event -Queen furious over Blair memoirs

The Queen is angry with Tony Blair as he has branded her snooty in his new autobiography, A Journey. His memoirs lifted the lid on life with the royals and Her Majesty is not impressed. The ex-PM described the Queen as stuck-up and divulged details of their private conservations,

including how she handled Princess Diana’s death. Palace insiders have accused Blair betraying her trust.

He revealed how the Queen once hosted a barbecue at Balmoral Castle before clearing away the plates and then washing up.
He told how Prince Philip rubbished Stoke-on-Trent as a “ghastly place” and how he mocked former Deputy PM John Prescott for the way he balanced a cuppa on his stomach.
One senior courtier said the royals had expressed their “profound sense of disappointment” that the former PM had blabbed in his book A Journey.
“It’s a fundamental principle that what goes on in meetings between the Prime Minister and the Queen should remain only known to them,” the Daily Star quoted the courtier as saying.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday he had cancelled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.

Three people were arrested after eggs and shoes were thrown at Blair, 57, as he arrived to sign copies of 'A Journey' at a bookshop in Dublin on Saturday and some of the 200 protesters clashed with police.

Anti-war campaigners and the far-right British National Party had said they would protest on Wednesday at the Waterstone branch in Piccadilly in central London over Blair's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"I have decided not to go ahead with the signing as I don't want the public to be inconvenienced by the inevitable hassle caused by protestors," Blair said. "I know the metropolitan police would, as ever, have done a superb job in managing any disruption but I do not wish to impose an extra strain on police resources, simply for a book-signing."

Blair is also facing an internet campaign aimed at disrupting sales of his book. A group set up on Facebook is calling for people to move copies into the crime section of bookstores. "Make bookshops think twice about where they categorise our generations (sic) greatest war criminal," said the campaign.