King Charles stopped Michael Jackson from seeing Harry and William

Diana and Jackson, two of the most famous people in the world in the late ’80s, bonded under the pressure of the intense media attention and criticism they faced.

“He talked a lot about Diana, he said she was his ideal woman,” Fiddes recalls. “They talked on the phone for hours… she called all the time and he called her all the time. But Prince Charles – now King Charles – often tried to put an end to it.”

Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris in 1997, a year after divorcing Charles. And when Jackson was in London a few years later, in 2002, he wanted to meet her sons William and Harry to pay his respects.

“Prince Harry and Prince William wanted to meet Michael,” Feddes said. ‘They clearly knew their mother was friends with Michael Jackson – she often went to the Wembley concerts during the Bad era and so on. We set it up so Michael could meet them, but King Charles was told he had put a stop to it.”

The singer was reportedly due to greet the young princes at the House of Lords, but the meeting was canceled at the last minute due to Charles’ concerns about possible ‘controversy’.

“A very official letter arrived saying that Prince William and Prince Harry will not be meeting Michael Jackson,” Feddes explained. “That was difficult because we had to break the news to him and that’s actually why he came to London.”