Queen Camilla was ‘strict’ about the foods she allowed her children to eat, claims son (Image: WPA POOL / Getty Images)
was ‘strict’ about the food she allowed her children to eat, ,
He stated that he grew up eating locally, seasonally, and organically, but there happened to be a list of foods he was not allowed to eat in Camilla’s household.
Tom Parker Bowles explained: “Ice Magic! Birds Eye Chicken Pies! Butterscotch Angel Delight and huge variety packs of Monster Munch! We wanted it all, although my mother was fairly strict in what we were allowed.”
Remembering his mother’s best dishes, he said: “She is a naturally good cook, everything from roast chicken and pork chops to tarragon chicken, smoked sausages in cream, and asparagus drenched in butter. As well as serious scrambled eggs and a mean cheese omelette.
“We had vegetables from the garden, game shot by my father and fish that he had caught. The fridge was always full of good snacks.”
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Camilla also told Tom Parker Bowles, a critic, food writer – and her son – about the food rule she had to follow as a child in conversation with
She said: “We always had to finish what was on our plate before we ate pudding.”
However, , divulging which treat she absolutely was not a fan of – rice pudding – which is a British favourite.
shared another insight about her relationship with food and cooking as a child.
She said: “I grew up in a very happy home, with good food at its heart. I still just about remember rationing, but we grew everything from tomatoes and melons to peas, beans, carrots and new potatoes. One of my earliest memories is podding those peas and beans with my mother, an accomplished cook.”
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Queen Camilla shares two children with her ex-husband, Andrew Parker-Bowles, , and the familly home was in Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Tom has been a food writer and restaurant critic for 24 years. Much like the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, he went to Eton and then he then read English at Worcester College, Oxford.
Tom’s sister, Laura Lopes, nee Parker Bowles studied History of Art and Marketing at Oxford Brookes University, and later managed The Space Gallery in London. She was also at Tatler at the same time as her older brother, working as their motoring correspondent. Now she is an art curator but keeps a lower profile than her brother.
Queen Camilla divorced Andrew Parker Bowles in 1995 before .