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Tom Parker Bowles shares rare insight into his mother Queen Camilla’s home life

Tom Parker Bowles shares rare insight into his mother Queen Camilla’s home life

She may be the Queen Consort but Camilla is just like us mere mortals when it comes to her home comforts, according to her son. In a new interview, Tom Parker Bowles, 51, shares that his mother, 79, is a “big walker,” makes “amazing scrambled eggs” and read to him and his sister, Laura Lopes, “every night” when they were children. The food writer and critic spoke to Scottish regional newspaper, The Press & Journal, about his catch-ups with Queen Camilla at Balmoral after appearing at the Braemar Literary Festival. “We’re big walkers… and it’s just so different from London, obviously,” he said. While the father-of-two hasn’t cooked for his royal relatives, he shared Camilla’s down-to-earth go-to breakfast staples. “She loves toast, actually, and she makes amazing scrambled eggs,” he said. © Getty ImagesTom Parker Bowles spoke about his mother’s home cooking Tom, who is Camilla’s son from her previous marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, is the author of nine cookery books and has even revealed his mother’s delicious roast chicken recipe. “People forget that …

Tom Parker Bowles shares sustainable meat recipes from ‘Let’s Eat Meat’

Tom Parker Bowles shares sustainable meat recipes from ‘Let’s Eat Meat’

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free Food critic and cookery writer – and son of Queen Camilla – Tom Parker Bowles champions eating meat in a sustainable, welfare-conscious way. A new issue of his acclaimed book, Let’s Eat Meat, has been released with 120 recipes celebrating all manner of meat, from slow-cooked lamb to chicken kebabs – and a ‘Less Meat’ chapter for some tasty alternatives. His approach to meat-eating is buy the best you can and use every last scrap to eke out the flavour. Pork with Clams A classic Portuguese pairing that proves pork and shellfish belong together – especially with plenty of bread for the sauce (Jenny Zarins) “A classic Iberian dish, the clams add their sweet charms to small chunks of pig,” says Parker Bowles. “Lard is the traditional cooking fat, but olive oil works fine too.” Serves: 4 Ingredients: 2 pork tenderloins (400g each), trimmed of …

Queen Camilla comes face-to-face with ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles at equestrian event

Queen Camilla comes face-to-face with ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles at equestrian event

Queen Camilla gracefully greeted her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles as the pair suffered an awkward run-in at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire ahead of the weekend.  The 78-year-old divorced her former spouse in 1995, after tying the knot with the British Army officer, 86, in 1973 and welcoming two children, Tom, 51, and Laura, 48, with him.  King Charles’s wife is the president of the Ebony Horse Club and was at the horse trials to meet with the club’s members when she encountered her ex-partner.  During her visit, she met volunteers from the club’s riding school in Brixton, south London, which provides riding lessons, workshops and youth support for disadvantaged young people, and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Camilla stopped to chat with broadcaster Clare Balding at the event and said she “was so moved” when she first discovered the club “quite a few years ago”. The Queen also spoke with a group of young people from the club, including a teenager who demonstrated a horse simulator. © Getty ImagesQueen Camilla chats …