Queen Camilla’s son reveals her no-nonsense secret to dealing with personal problems
Tom Parker-Bowles said his mum Camilla is a no nonsense 'grafter' who hasn't changed since becoming Queen and is "going full tilt" when most people her age are retired
Queen Camilla’s son has labelled his mum a no nonsense “grafter” who gets on with the job.
Food writer Tom Parker-Bowles said becoming Queen has not changed his mother and when most people are retiring, the 77-year-old is “going full tilt”.
The author joked how Camilla would often tell him to “get on with it” and if he had an issue in his life she would tell him to “not moan about it” if he had a problem. Speaking on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK this morning, Tom, 49, also praised his mother Camilla’s work ethic.
Chris asked: “When your mum pitches up at one of your launch events or one of the food festivals, what’s that like nowadays compared to what it used to be like?
Tom replied: “I don’t think it’s really changed – you’ve seen her a hundred times – she hasn’t changed.I think her job description has perhaps changed. Her job has massively changed. Most people are retiring at her age and she’s going full tilt. She’s a grafter.
“She was a great mother. When you have to do stuff, she says ‘Just get on with it, do it, don’t talk about it, don’t moan about it’.”
Tom, whose latest cookbook, Cooking and the Crown, details the history of food within the royal family – from the reign of Queen Victoria beginning in 1837 and Edward VII at the turn of the century, to Charles and Camilla, also discussed the King and Queen’s love of mushrooms.
When Evans said he wished he knew “more about foraging them”, Tom replied: “Wild mushrooms are just wonderful.
“I don’t know enough. I only know three kinds of mushrooms… there are a couple of serious foragers, actually, and I’m not just plugging it here, my mother and the King are good mushroomers, mycologists.
“They really know their stuff. In Scotland, I go with my mother and she knows her stuff about mushrooms but I wouldn’t… you pick the wrong one, you’re dead.”
