Queen Camilla's son enters open warfare with Prince Harry to defend his mother from him. He assures that he married for love and that King Carlos is "good and kind."
It is one of the dangers that family conflicts lurk: that they go from confronting their direct protagonists to extending to 'secondary' relatives. Until now, the controversial accusations of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in interviews, memoirs,, or docuseries, have resonated in the silence of those indicated: King Charles III, Queen Camilla and the Princes of Wales. At the gates of the coronation, a new character breaks into the plot and also makes statements: Tom Parker Bowles.
Tom Parker Bowles, 48, is the eldest son of Queen Camilla and her first husband, Andrew. It is expected that both they and Laura and Annabel, daughter and sister of the queen consort, will attend the coronation on May 6. What was totally unexpected were Tom's statements regarding Prince Harry's accusations, a taboo subject for the Windsors that, for some reason, have now found an answer.
Tom Parker Bowles, the hitherto discreet son of Queen Camilla, has broken the strategy of silence that, against all odds, Buckingham Palace has been upholding for months. Gastronomic critic and father of two children, he wanted to defend his mother from the worst attack she has experienced in the last decade: the accusation of being the "evil stepmother" and of following "a strategy" to get her to marry King Carlos III and become queen herself.
"Soon after our private meetings with her, he began to develop her long-term strategy, a campaign aimed at marriage and, eventually, the Crown," Prince Harry wrote. Another of the most controversial passages in Spare: In the Shadows, Prince Harry's autobiography, was the description of the Duke of Sussex's rejection scene before the romantic advances of Camilla Parker Bowles. Diana of Wales's youngest son begged his father not to marry the queen consort, a wish to which his father refused.
The controversial statements by Tom Parker Bowles came by surprise during the recording of a podcast, The New Agents, hosted by three former BBC journalists. Referring undisguisedly to that possible plan that Camilla would have carried out to reach the throne, he said: «I don't care what they say: this is not some kind of long-term strategy. My mother married the person she loved and that's what happened ».
Tom Parker Bowles says King Charles is nice
The son of the new British queen also wanted to offer his own point of view about the relationship with King Carlos III, perhaps clearing up the viral videos that have shown his apparently difficult and demanding character. In addition to ensuring that the two get along "wonderfully", Tom Parker Bowles described the new king as "good, kind, and intelligent". In short, lovely.
Tom Parker Bowles wanted to put King Carlos III through the roof not only personally, but also institutionally. He assured that the monarch "is deeply interested in his performance as Prince of Wales or as a monarch" and, in addition, valued his interest in the environment. "20 years ago they labeled him crazy and eccentric, but everything he said then is our greatest concern today."
The son of Camilla Parker Bowles also wanted to tell how his mother was living the days before the coronation, which will also be attended by his youngest son Freddie, 13, as page of honor. He also revealed that the queen consort has personally ensured that neither spices nor garlic appears on the menu since she is not a fan at all.
"I think anyone would be nervous on such an important occasion in historical terms," revealed Tom Parker Bowles. And yes, I think I would be terrified if I had to walk before the world wearing ancient robes. My mother is 75 years old, and she wow, it's a difficult thing. But she has never complained. You just have to do it and move on."
He remains to see where exactly Tom and Laura Parker Bowles, the children of Queen Camilla, will sit. The question is interesting because it has finally been known that Prince Henry of England, Duke of Sussex, will do so in the tenth row. Far, far away from the protagonists of the ceremony and the princes of Wales. The justification for this postponement has to do with his functions: he is no longer an active member of Casa Real.
