As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.

The Prince of Wales, as patron of the Football Association (F.A.), English soccer's governing body, will have an acute understanding of what Jota's family are going through after his own mother, Princess Diana, died in a Paris car crash when he was 15.