Princess Diana washed my dishes to ‘take a break’ from royal life: friend
nypost.comappeared on BBC Radio 3’s program “Private Passions” and talked about his friendship with the late Princess of Wales. Diana and Sleep sent vibrations through England when they performed a dance to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” in 1985 at a charity gala at the Royal Opera House to celebrate her husband Charles’ 37th birthday.
During the rehearsal process, the duo formed a very close friendship. “Whenever we saw each other again, the shoes came off at my flat, she’d do the dishes.
It would be fun and we’d giggle,” Sleep gushed to the show’s host, Michael Berkeley. “I think she didn’t come to me so much for the serious part that was going on in her life at the time, and things were moving so fast there; I think she just came to me for a break.” Sleep said that at first, he wasn’t sure the dance was going to work, since the royal was 5-foot-10.
The two instantly took to each other’s senses of humor after the princess called him a “naughty boy” when Sleep revealed he had a “very late night” the previous evening.
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