{"id":364270,"date":"2026-10-04T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364270\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:04:31","slug":"tom-parker-bowles-shares-rare-insight-into-his-mother-queen-camillas-home-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364270\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Parker Bowles shares rare insight into his mother Queen Camilla’s home life"},"content":{"rendered":"

She may be the Queen Consort but Camilla<\/a> is just like us mere mortals when it comes to her home comforts, according to her son.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The food writer and critic spoke to Scottish regional newspaper, The Press & Journal<\/a>, about his catch-ups with Queen Camilla at Balmoral after appearing at the Braemar Literary Festival.<\/p>\n

“We’re big walkers\u2026 and it’s just so different from London, obviously,” he said.<\/p>\n

While the father-of-two hasn’t cooked for his royal relatives, he shared Camilla’s down-to-earth go-to breakfast staples.<\/p>\n

“She loves toast, actually, and she makes amazing scrambled eggs,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Tom\u00a9 Getty ImagesTom Parker Bowles spoke about his mother’s home cooking<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“People forget that before she was, you know, this royal figure, we grew up in the country in Wiltshire. My dad was in the army and was away a lot. So she cooked for us kids. She was a really good cook \u2013 a traditional British cook,” he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

“Animated” reader<\/p>\n

Camilla, who founded The Queen’s Reading Room during the COVID-19 pandemic, is passionate about the benefits of reading and literacy.<\/p>\n

Her Majesty has passed down her love of books to her children and grandchildren, with Tom revealing: \u00a0“She was quite animated. And she did read to us every night. And I think it’s fair to say she would have tried to do all the voices, but that’s maybe not her thing.”<\/p>\n

\"The\u00a9 GettyThe King is talented at doing voices<\/p>\n

The Queen has previously shared that her husband, King Charles, is “brilliant” at mimicking the Harry Potter characters’ voices when reading to her five grandchildren.<\/p>\n

“The King used to do it with Harry Potter with my children, and my nephew and nieces. He would sit with them, reading, and he really is a good actor,” Tom confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She may be the Queen Consort but Camilla is just like us mere mortals when it comes to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1432,9,24,63,1433,122,124,123,1431,9543],"class_list":["post-364270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-british-royals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-camilla","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royalty","tag-tom-parker-bowles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}