led to a years-long friendship between the two. Both honored each other with awards from their respective foundations, and just last July they were spotted having dinner at New York hot-spot The Grill.Diana after the then–19-year-old sent him a thank-you note for performing at Prince Andrew’s 21st birthday. Over the next two decades, he’d be one of her closest confidantes—and, when she tragically died at the age of 36, he performed “Candle in the Wind” at her funeral.
Charles is chummy with Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, too. After Lancaster told Camilla Parker Bowles that the two had sat next to each other at dinner, reporters : “Yes, he told me and said what a really lovely evening it had been, particularly sitting next to you.”