Queen Camilla is not a fan of one winter sport (Image: Eddie Mulholland – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
may be one of the most senior members of the Royal Family, however it turns out she does not always share the same love of certain sports that are popular among the rest of the royals.
While most members of the Royal Family are known to be keen skiers, it turns out Camilla, 77, has never been a fan of the winter sport despite going on ski holidays before marrying into the Royal Family.
This was revealed by her son , where he opened up about the types of holidays he went on as a child with his mother before she met King Charles.
As well as revealing how the family would fly economy, Tom also revealed that every year the family would go on some form of ski holiday.
While he would enjoy hitting the slopes with his sister – Queen Camilla’s daughter Laura Lopes – and their father Andrew Parker Bowles, Tom said his mother would never join them.
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He revealed in The Times: “My parents, sister and I would spend a week every December in St Anton am Arlberg in Austria or somewhere like Chamonix in France or Verbier in Switzerland.
“My mother hated skiing, though, so she’d send us up the mountain with a guide while she sat and read her book.
“She’d come up in the ski lift to meet us for lunch and one time tried to make conversation with the guide.”
While the Queen may not be a fan of skiing, her husband and has gone various times over the years, enjoying a number of holidays with various family members including his sons and .
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King Charles has always been a fan of skiing (Image: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Although the monarch, 76, used to enjoy such holidays,
On a visit to the SeAH Wind plant in Teesside last week, the King spoke to Swiss wind turbine engineer Avzi Jusufi.
As Jusufi’s colleague David Croft, who works at the plant,said: “The King said: ‘I think my skiing days are behind me’.”
While the King and Queen may not be hitting the ski slopes anytime soon, it appears the sport is still very popular among the younger royals including and Princess Kate, who have