Charles had specifically requested accompanying her to St Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle, where she will beinterred with her husband, King George VI, who died in 1952.
Bowing before the royal family's coffins as they were about to beinterred 80 years after the murder, Russia's head of state publicly took the nation's guilt on his shoulders.
More than two months after his death, the pop singer will beinterred in a private ceremony Thursday evening at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, the Jackson family said.