“The King” author Christopher Andersen made the claim after the resurfacing of a 2011 interview in which the embattled music mogul chatted about wanting the royals to attend his blowout bashes.

“Diddy invited both William and Harry back when, as he put it, the brothers ‘were young bucks getting into trouble themselves,’” the journalist told Fox News Digital Wednesday. “Obviously, in their youth, both princes made plenty of headlines with their party animal antics at nightclubs in and around London.”

“Diddy made a point of inviting them to his parties,” Andersen continued. “But those invitations were wisely turned down, and after William and Kate [Middleton] got engaged [in 2010], Diddy got the hint and stopped inviting them altogether.”

Both William, now 42, and Harry, now 40, were regular club-goers and, as the royal pundit noted, “might easily have said yes and attended one of Diddy’s wild parties.”

However, “thanks to their palace handlers, they dodged a bullet there,” according to Andersen.

Combs, now 54, confirmed during a 2011 appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” that invitations had been proffered to the “young bucks.”

“Not anymore,” Graham Norton noted, pointing out that William was about to marry Middleton later that year.