Philip Treacy with over 140,000 connections), and in July 2011 said: "In the future, we'll look back and think she looked wild". In a July 2018 Radio 4 Desert Island Discs interview, Treacy said: "There was a moment where I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London", from the controversy of the "pretzel hat". The hat resides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Treacy designed over twenty hats worn at the 19 May 2018 Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, including by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and
Patrick Treacy for the Michael Jackson Legacy foundation, and in 2012 opened Everland Children's Orphanage in Liberia and orphanages in Haiti in 2013. The Sun newspaper reported that Treacy was due to treat Jackson shortly before the singer's death in 2009. In 2009, Treacy was on the special witness list for the trial of Conrad Murray, however, he was not called to testify. He released a memoir entitled "Behind the Mask (memoir): The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman who became Michael Jackson's Doctor" in 2015. The 1987 needlestick incident eventually led to Treacy's humanitarian work in Africa and his developing an empathy