Following both their deaths, rumors emerged linking John F. Kennedy Jr. and Princess Diana during the period before he wed Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and after she separated from King Charles III.
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The truth, people who knew John later revealed, is that they met up at Diana’s NYC hotel in 1995 — two years before she died at 36 following a car crash in Paris — for business, not pleasure.
John quietly visited the Princess of Wales for about an hour and a half in her suite at The Carlyle where he tried, unsuccessfully, to convince her to pose for George.
The Carlyle
The magazine’s creative director, Matt Berman — who wrote about the meeting in his 2014 memoir, JFK Jr., George & Me — later remembered “the one funny thing” John said afterward: “She’s got a great pair of legs.”