Adams denies Diana affair claims

Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has categorically denied reports from his ex-girlfriend that he romanced British royal Princess Diana. He dismisses them as “pure conjecture”.

Cecile Thomsen, who was with Adams for 12 years before splitting-up last year, claims the singer had a fling with Diana a year before her fatal car crash in 1997.

She has gone on record saying, "The affair was in 1996 after Diana's divorce from Prince Charles."

But Adams insists it isn’t true, insisting, "Miss Thomsen doesn't know anything about my friendship with Diana. These reports are pure conjecture and supposition."

Despite his denials Adams had made no secret of his infatuation for the late royal and even wrote a song about her. It was on the B-side of his hit single “Heaven” in 1995. The track was called “Diana” and he sang, "The first time I saw you. I knew right then and there that I had to make you mine, the day that he married you, I nearly lost my mind."

Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, claimed the Princess had nine suitors after her divorce - including a Hollywood actor, a novelist, a sportsman, a politician, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a billionaire, a surgeon - and a musician.