High relations: Queen Camilla’s children and grandchildren will participate in the coronation ceremony

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Coronation of King Charles III, which will be held May 6 at Westminster Abbey, will be a kind of demonstration of the balance of power in his family. One of the central roles is assigned to his eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince William of Wales. It is still unknown if the younger will arrive for the ceremony — Prince Harry. But the children of his wife Camilla will become active participants in this action.

Speaking of the coronation, many people forget that his wife will be crowned along with Charles. But before the marriage with the heir to the British throne, Camilla was already married. The queen consort has her own children and grandchildren, who are also members of her and Charles III families. And they are all invited to her coronation, however, in different capacities.

Camilla was the wife of former British Army officer Andrew Parker-Bowles from 1973 to 1995. During this time they had two children. — son Tom and daughter Laura. After the divorce, the couple remained on good terms, in addition, Andrew was and remains a close friend of Princess Anne, so you should not be surprised if his face flashes somewhere in the last rows of Westminster Abbey chairs. Their son Thomas Henry Charles Parker-Bowles — renowned food critic and author of numerous food books. He — the main pride of the queen consort and an inexhaustible source of recipes for her cuisine.

Tom, as his relatives call him, was born on December 18, 1974. His godfather was the heir to the British throne and the former, as well as the future beloved of Camilla, the Prince of Wales. So he is not a stranger to King Charles. Tom and his younger sister Laura Rose, born four years later, spent their childhood in Wiltshire — First in the estate is a littleoye, and then to Middlvik House. They grew up in a very wealthy family, and received an excellent education. But his fascination with cooking began much later. He recalled that in his youth, as a culinary specialist, he was “hopeless.” There was no one to teach him: his mother could do the “foundations”, such as hot, but did not inspire him for cooking.

I don’t remember her teaching me — perhaps this is because at the age of 18 it seems to us that we already know everything, and we do not listen to our parents.

In childhood, Tom studied at the Summer Fields preparatory school in Oxford, then visited iton and the Vorcean college, where he became a member of the “dining society of the Gaveveston Pierce”. At the same time, he himself did not cook and, being a student, ate mainly chips with Curry sauce. In one of the interviews, he admitted:

We had culinary courses in the end. I liked them mainly because there was a very beautiful teacher there. But we were taught there things such as “a rooster in wine”, when it was actually we had to start with the basics — how to boil an egg.

Since then, he has been a passionate supporter of cooking lessons in schools and believes that they should become an integral part of the curriculum. For his part, he does everything so that the British are addicted to delicious and healthy food. He says that he fell in love with cooking when he was twenty, and now appreciates this lesson for the fact that it has a “healing and calming effect.”

I loved to eat and could tie words in sentences, so I thought I could write about food.

In 2001, Tom Parker Bowles began to lead a column on food in British Tatler. And since 2002, he became a famous expert in this area. Now he is the restaurant critic of the newspaper The Mail On Sunday and the Esquire’s culinary editor, and the writer in the British and American Condé Nast Traveler and the author of articles in Country Life, Harpers Bazaar and Town and Country. He was one of the interlocutors of Gordon Ramsi on his culinary show “The F Word”, participated in many programs about food on British television and, finally, he himself shot such programs. In 2014, Tom Parker Bowles entered the ten most popular restaurant critics of Great Britain on social networks. In addition, he wrote seven books about cooking.

But not everything in his life was so flawless. When he was a student, the press almost daily watered his mother with slop. He was 18 years old when Princess Diana called Camille the mistress of her husband, 19 years old, when Carl’s sexual fantasies about his mother became public. At the age of 24, he discovered that the press was pursuing him. Journalist The news of the world, who followed Tom at one of the parties at the Cannes festival, wrote that he used drugs. A monstrous scandal erupted. His godfather Karl even called him and called him a “damn fool.” Tom himself in an interview recalled:

I was undisciplined, arranged parties. When I was young, I was fired all the time.

Nevertheless, it is he who is now called as a candidate to replace Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex, by the way, honored him several lines in his book “Spare”. He assured that messages in the media about his participation in wild boars in Germany in 2017 appeared, thanks to the image makers of his father, who “drained” this information to journalists “in exchange for concealing stories about the son of Camilla”. One way or another, in 2005, after five years of acquaintance, Tom married the senior editor of his beloved magazine British Town & Countru Sarah Bays. They had two children: in 2007 — daughter Lola, in 2015 — son of Freddie. And in 2018 they broke up.

As for the younger sister of the eminent culinary culinary of Laura, her life passed in the shadow of her mother and brother. She studied at a Catholic boarding school for girls, then entered Oxford Brooks -Universetite, founded in 1865 as an Oxford art school. Laura from childhood adored paintings and devoted her life to them. She studied art history, like Princess Kate of Wales, as well as marketing. In 2001, she went to Venice for a three -month internship in the Guggenheim collection, then worked in Tatler, where her brother Tom was then the host of the culinary section, and later managed the Space Gallery art gallery in the prestigious London district of Belgravia.

In October 2005, she became co-founder and director of the Eleven Gallery in London. In May 2006, Laura married Harry Lopez, who once worked as a model for designer Kelvin Klein, and later became a certified accountant. Harry — the owner of a very impressive pedigree. He is the grandson of the 2nd Baron of Roboro, and the heir to the estates in the county of Devon in England and in Scotland. At their wedding in Wiltshire, the whole family of Laura gathered, including Prince William, Prince Harry and, of course, her mother Camilla, who became the wife of the heir to the throne a year before.

In 2008, Laura gave birth to a daughter, Eliza, now — favorite of the queen consort and grandmother. In 2009, twins Louis and Gus were born. In 2011, Eliza was honored to be a bride’s girlfriend at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The royal observers noted the fact that during the traditional greeting of the royal family from the balcony of the Buckingham Palace after the wedding ceremony, the baby sat in the arms of the future king. Of course, much has changed since then, and last summer, Camille spoke in an interview with Vogue:

Girls begin to dress and paint, and, you know, it looks rather frightening. You see them with pierced ears, they have a lot of makeup, hairstyles funny, and so on.

The other day, Sunday Times reported that they will all take an active part in the coronation ceremony. Information appeared that Camilla asked her grandchildren to be pages and hold a canopy over her during chrismation. Previously, this role was played by duchesses. A source within the royal family told the publication:

This is a good sign and quite a bold move. Another example of the fact that the king and queen-sailing are not afraid to shock the traditions a little to reflect the realities of modern life in which such mixed families are a normal situation.