WhileCamilla, Duchess of Cornwallmay one day sit on the British throne beside her husband,Prince Charles, it might not be as “Queen Camilla.”
“I honestly don’t know if Mum will be called queen,” her son Tom Parker-Bowles, toldThe Timeson Thursday. “That hasn’t been decided. There are a lot of interesting Sky documentaries about that I’m sure, but I honestly don’t know if that’s true.”
The question of Camilla’s future title has been debated since apress releasewas shared on the day of her 2005 engagement toPrince Charles, which said “It is intended that Mrs. Parker Bowles should use the title HRH The Princess Consort when The Prince of Wales accedes to The Throne.”
Queen Elizabeth and Camilla.Chris Jackson/Getty
The palace also removed the question of whether or not Camilla will be Queen from the FAQ on Charles’s official website a number of years ago.
Tom Parker Bowles.Ian West - WPA Pool/Getty Images
At the same time, Tom’s father, Andrew Parker-Bowles, was also shown having a romantic liaison with Princess Anne. The truth, however, according to Tom, is far less entertaining.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in her new portait.Chris Jackson/Getty Images
“The Crownis beautifully filmed and beautifully acted but complete bollocks mostly,” he toldThe Times. “I saw a bit with my dad and thought, ‘God, you’ve got him wrong,’ but I would say that, wouldn’t I?”
As for thereal-life soap operasurrounding the life of his stepbrotherPrince HarryandMeghan Markle, Tom added simply “What can I say? Families are never easy, but they’ll work it out in the end.”
Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker Bowles.Colin Hutton / Netflix
Tom continued, “I stay out of that. That’s nothing to do with me.”
Since the funeral ofPrince Philipon April 17, the Duchess of Cornwall has returned to work, paying tribute to her late grandfather-in-law at the second season launch of her book club,The Reading Room, which is dedicated to “discover[ing] new books and meet[ing] the extraordinary people who create them.”
Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.Christopher Jackson/Getty Images
Camilla used the moment to honor the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed along his BookTrust patronage to her in 2011.
“As Patron of BookTrust, which I inherited from my late father-in-law His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, I would like to dedicate the next series of my Reading Room to him, in memory of a great fellow reader,” she shared on Instagram.
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Kate Middleton at Prince Philip’s funeral.Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty
While Tom is extremely close to the royal family — his children call Camilla “Gaga” andPrince Charles"Umpa" — he toldThe Timeshe did not personally attend theDuke’s Windsor Castle funeral.
Despite this, the events still left a huge mark on Tom, who works as a restaurant critic for a British national newspaper and tragically lost his girlfriend Alice Procope, 42, to cancer four weeks ago.
“I really blubbed during the Last Post,” he said about watching the funeral from his home in London. “I didn’t knowPrince Philipat all but it was all very moving. The clear blue sky, the music… We’ve lost so many due to Covid it also felt like a chance to mourn that loss too.”
source: people.com
