Queen Camilla’s son is seemingly telling Prince Harry how to write a book without defaming the Royal Family.
The Duke of Sussex, who himself released book Spare back in 2023, let down the royal family with intimate details from his life in the UK.
Now, Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles is releasing his own book called Cooking and the Crown and is expected to show a better picture of the Royals.
Royal expert Phil Dampier tells The Sun: “He is sending a message that you can talk about the monarchy in positive terms and not denigrate it as Harry did in Spare. Harry washed his dirty linen in public and that is something Tom would never do.”
He added: “As a journalist, he [Tom] is inevitably a natural gossip and he must have been privy to so many secrets over the years, like when his mother was going to marry Charles, and so many bits of inside information that others would kill for. But he has remained discreet and would obviously never do anything to upset his mother, who trusts him totally.”
Prince Harry is being sent a clear, telling message by Queen Camilla’s son who has announced he is to publish a new book, an expert has claimed.
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Food critic Tom Parker Bowles has revealed he is to release a book later this year called Cooking and the Crown, which will feature recipes from royal banquets as well as secrets from palace kitchens. His stepbrother Harry released his own book, a controversial memoir called Spare, last year, where he took aim at many of his royal relatives, including Camilla. The book was filled with bombshell after bombshell as he alleged his stepmother Camilla was ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ and claimed his dad King Charles didn’t hug him after his mother Princess Diana died.
And according to royal expert Phil Dampier, Tom’s book shows that it’s possible to lift the lid on the monarchy without “denigrating’ it. He told The Sun: “He is sending a message that you can talk about the monarchy in positive terms and not denigrate it as Harry did in Spare. Harry washed his dirty linen in public and that is something Tom would never do.”
He added: “As a journalist, he [Tom] is inevitably a natural gossip and he must have been privy to so many secrets over the years, like when his mother was going to marry Charles, and so many bits of inside information that others would kill for. But he has remained discreet and would obviously never do anything to upset his mother, who trusts him totally.”
Tom is Camilla’s first of two children with her former husband Andrew Parker Bowles. He is a well-known food writer and often appears on cookery shows. He has authored several books and published in magazines, including Conde Nast Traveller, GQ and Esquire.
In September 2005, months after his mother’s wedding to Charles, Tom wed long-term girlfriend Sara Buys during a ceremony in Oxford. The couple had two children, Lola and Freddie, but split in 2018. Later, Tom found love with journalist Alice Procope, who was a mum of three. However, tragically in 2021, she died at the age of 42 after a battle with cancer. Camilla divorced Andrew in 1995 and 10 years later, in April 2005, she married the then-Prince Charles. Tom later spoke out to defend her against cruel allegations she played an “end game” in her relationship with the future king, maintaining she had simply “married the person she loved”.
Speaking on The News Agents podcast in April 2023, Tom said: “I think change happens but I don’t care what anyone says – this wasn’t any sort of end game. She married the person she loved and this is what happened.”
His comments came just months after Harry, made a number of claims about his stepmother Camilla in Spare, claiming she played “the long game”, with a campaign aimed at marriage and “the crown”. “I had complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who, I believed, had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar,” Harry wrote in his tell-all book.
He said that meeting Camilla – who he referred to as the ‘Other Woman’ in his memoir – was like an “injection”, writing: “Close your eyes and you won’t even feel it.” “I remember wondering… if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the evil stepmothers in the stories,” he wrote.
