John Travolta devotes chapter of book to Princess Diana

John Travolta is set to devote a chapter in his forthcoming autobiography to the night he danced with the late Princess Diana. The Hollywood actor danced with the princess, who tragically died in a car accident in 1997, during ball at the White House in 1985 and Travolta is keen to discuss it in his novel about his life. He told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "I just started the book, because if I waited any longer I'd have to write two books. I have too many experiences that I loved in my life to not write about them. Princess Diana is one chapter I'm writing. I haven't gotten into the details of that whole day and that evening, and the calls I got, but it's something I want to go into. Last year, Travolta talked for the first about the magical night with Diana. The 'Grease' star, who has two children with wife Kelly Preston, said: "I felt like a frog who had been turned into a prince."

"It was at the White House in 1985 and President Reagan's wife Nancy came over to whisper: 'I have a request from the princess. It was always her big dream so would you dance with her?'

Travolta plucked up courage and, as he took to the floor with 24-year-old Diana, the other dancers left and the band played a medley of his movie songs.

He said: "We were alone with the world watching. "She started to dance kind of strongly. So I gently pressed her hand down and put my other hand on her waist.

It was to say 'let me lead because I know what I'm doing'. She got the message and we went to town."

"We had the time of our lives. When it was over she bowed to me and I to her."