Black or White? Jackson's children look darker at the funeral...and was Michael 'the best father'?

SHOOT: Was hair dyed and make-up applied to Michael Jackson's children to make them appear darker? Possible, but it could also be the light.

Dailymail.co.uk: Jackson has admitted that he "snatched" Paris from the delivery table within seconds of her birth and "took her home with the placenta all over her".

He giggled during an interview at the memory of how excited he was to have another baby, seemingly unaware of how disturbing his behaviour had been.

The upbringing of these two children was, from the first, every bit as disturbing as his own dysfunctional childhood.

They were not allowed to associate with other children, and did not attend school or nursery.

Jackson often took them abroad and on those late-night visits to museums and shops - usually between 2am and 3am - when everything is closed to the public.

One who saw them during a tour of a museum in Vegas a few years ago said that while Jackson was looking at the classic motorbikes in an excited state, the children were noticeably sleepy and pale.

SHOOT: ironically Michael complained about exactly the same sort of abuse. being woken up by his father to do late night/early morning concerts, flying to South America as a young child early in the morning; seems he was putting his own kids through something similar.

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk There is nothing about the girl, with her flowing brown hair and fine, pretty features, or her two handsome brothers which would merit a second glance. But, on closer inspection, there is perhaps just something in the way which the older of the two boys is looking, in eager glee at his surroundings which lets you know that he is enjoying a moment of rare freedom. For these are the rarely seen children of Michael Jackson. They have spent their lives being veiled, shrouded and even masked in public. Until very recently, only those in Jackson's inner circle would have recognised them. They have been brought up in the most peculiar way in gilded isolation - without friends, conventional schooling or even a mother. Theirs has been a totally unconventional existence: they have feasted on Kentucky Fried Chicken in presidential suites in hotels across the world, and shopped at London's Hamleys toy store in the middle of the night. clipped from www.sowetan.co.za