Queen Camilla’s Son Hits Back at Claim Winning Crown Was Her ‘Endgame’

Queen Camilla’s son has hit again at claims that his mom’s “endgame” was to develop into queen, in a Thursday podcast look.

The feedback from Tom Parker Bowles, the eldest of Camilla’s two kids from her first marriage, comply with these made in January by his stepbrother, Prince Harry. When selling his memoir Spare, the royal stated that there have been “our bodies left on the street” by Camilla “on the way in which to being Queen Consort.”

Showing on The Information Brokers podcast in Britain on Thursday, Parker Bowles was requested whether or not it felt “bizarre” for the meals author and newspaper columnist now to consider his mom as “the queen.”

“Probably not,” Parker Bowles responded, “as a result of she’s nonetheless our mom—I say ‘our’ not talking the ‘royal we’, talking for my sister and me—however she is our mom.”

He then went on to quash the concept Camilla had actively sought to develop into queen over the course of her 18-year marriage to the now-King Charles III.

“I believe change occurs,” he stated, “however I do not care what anybody says: this wasn’t any kind of endgame. She married the particular person she loves, and that is what occurred. I believe that is it.”

When Camilla and Charles married in 2005 following an extended and turbulent street to the altar, it was introduced that she would take the title of Princess Consort when Queen Elizabeth II died.

Famously described within the Nineteen Nineties by Princess Diana because the third particular person in her marriage to Charles, Camilla’s recognition among the many British individuals was low on the time of her marriage. This was regardless of it growing considerably because the interval surrounding Diana’s dying in a Paris automotive crash in 1997.

The Princess Consort concession to the royal marriage was seen as a method of appeasing the general public. It could have been an unprecedented title to be held by the spouse of a British king.

In 2022, after 17 years of service to the Crown and amid Camilla’s growing recognition in Britain, Queen Elizabeth II introduced that it was her “honest want” that when the time got here, her son’s spouse would take the rightful title of “Queen Consort.” This got here into impact when the monarch died on September 8 final yr.

Of this determination, royal professional Richard Fitzwilliams instructed Newsweek: “Each king has had a Queen. Since Camilla was ‘non-negotiable’ for Charles, there would, logically, have been no different consequence after they married, although the problem of her title has all the time been delicate, particularly after Diana’s dying.”

In January 2023, Camilla’s stepson Prince Harry printed his record-breaking memoir. He instructed of his experiences of behind-palace-walls life, and his stepmother turned one of many royal relations who was most critically analyzed.

In his ebook, Harry described feeling as if Camilla sacrificed him on her “PR altar.” He wrote that she leaked tales about him to spice up her personal public picture, making herself extra fashionable.

Talking to 60 Minutes‘ Anderson Cooper in an interview selling the ebook, Harry described Camilla’s must “rehabilitate her picture” after the damaging interval of the Nineteen Nineties as “harmful.”

“That made her harmful due to the connections that she was forging inside the British press, and there was open willingness on either side to commerce of knowledge,” Harry stated.

“And with a household constructed on hierarchy, and together with her, on the way in which to being queen consort, there was gonna be individuals or our bodies left on the street due to that,” he added.

In his memoir, the prince additionally wrote that he and Prince William pleaded with their father by no means to marry Camilla. She could be continuously in comparison with their mom, Diana.

Camilla has not publicly responded to the prince’s feedback about her in both his memoir or interviews selling it. That is according to a blanket “no remark” place adopted by all of the royal palaces.

Lately, nevertheless, one of many new queen’s closest associates offered an perception into how she dealt with the revelations.

The Marchioness of Lansdowne, a long-time good friend and just lately appointed “Queen’s Companion” of Camilla’s, instructed Britain’s The Instances newspaper this month of Harry’s ebook: “After all, it bothers her; in fact, it hurts. However she does not let it get to her. Her philosophy is all the time, ‘Do not make a factor of it and it’ll quiet down—least stated, soonest mended.'”

On Could 6, Camilla can be topped queen in a joint coronation together with her husband at Westminster Abbey, London. Prince Harry and the prolonged royal household can be in attendance.

Additionally represented can be Camilla’s kids, Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes, and their kids. Camilla’s three grandsons, Freddy Parker Bowles and Gus and Louis Lopes, will act as her official Pages of Honour through the coronation service.

Newsweek emailed Buckingham Palace for remark.

James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek‘s royal reporter based mostly in London. You will discover him on Twitter at @jrcrawfordsmith and skim his tales on Newsweek‘s The Royals Fb web page.

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