For most people, meetingQueen Elizabethwould be something almost impossible to turn down.

According toCheat Sheet, he wrote in his book, “I don’t care about the Queen.

The Queen means nothing to me …

Queen Elizabeth smiling

I’d much rather meet Eric Clapton.”

In hindsight, did the star make the right decision?

The day he would have met Her Majesty, he instead met future wife Sue Shifrin.

David Cassidy holding umbrella