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The year: 1993.
The host: Elton John.
The dinner-party guests: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere,Princess Diana, and some other rich people.
Enter stage right: a duel of the heart!
(She and Prince Charles divorced the year prior.)
The most peculiar scene developed.
Straightaway, Richard Gere and Diana seemed very taken with each other, John recalled in his memoir.
They ended up sitting in front of the fireplace together, locked in rapt conversation.
Stallone,really, was not pleased!
Then he added: If Id wanted her, I wouldve taken her!
We managed to wait until his car was out of sight before we started laughing.
Back in our living room, Diana and Richard Gere were still gazing raptly at each other.
She seemed completely unruffled.
And so he squandered his chance to be Harry and Williams new stepfather.
