Published on September 26, 2024 at 2:43 p.m.
While promoting his new book, Thomas Parker Bowles spoke about his mother, Queen Camilla, but also about Charles III’s cancer.
He is not the most exposed member of the royal family in the press. However, in recent days, Thomas Parker Bowles has been speaking out more and more by promoting his book, “Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III”. Usually very discreet, the son of Queen Camilla takes the opportunity to make rare confidences about their family life, but also to discuss the cancer of his father-in-law Charles III, made public last February.
Charles III and Camilla face the ordeal of illness
“His treatment is going well,” he said, relayed by the “Daily Express”. He continues by talking about his mother Camilla, and more particularly the way in which she deals with the ordeal of illness: “She is robust, my mother. » A few words which confirm to what extent the queen has become a pillar for Charles III.
Last March, while she was on an official trip to Belfast, Camilla had joked with a speaker about the fact that “men were not the best patients”: “I try to keep him [Charles III, N.D.L.R.] in order. »
Behind the scenes of their family life
When talking about his family life during an interview with “Point de vue” this week, Thomas Parker Bowles had slipped secrets about family meals with Charles III and Camilla. He confided in particular: “We argue, we hug each other, we talk loudly from one end to the other of the table filled with good wine and good food. […] I chat with my father-in-law Charles, and my sister and her husband chat with my mother, for example, like ordinary children meeting their parents to take stock of their lives. » A definitively united clan.