Queen Camilla’s son takes thinly-veiled dig at Royal Family when asked if he wants to be a prince
Queen Camilla's son has seemingly made a jab at the Royal Family when asked if he wants to be a prince.
Tom Parker Bowles is the son of Camilla and her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles and stepson to her second husband King Charles III.
Andrew and Camilla also share a younger daughter named Laura - making both the Parker Bowles siblings the half-siblings to current heir to the throne Prince William, as well as Prince Harry, who stepped down as a senior working royal back in 2020.
Speaking of the idea of being given a royal title, Tom quipped that receiving such an honour of becoming a prince wouldn't be too good at all, and even suggested the decision would damage the British monarchy's reputation.
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"I tell you, that would be the quickest way to revolution," the father-of-two, now a food writer and restaurant critic, told the Radio Times Good Food podcast.
He added: "I think we're a fairly balanced and sober and sensible country on the whole. But if I suddenly became a prince, I think that Buckingham Palace gates would be stormed. It would be appalling.
"I think that would put back the long and glorious cause of the monarchy in Britain by many years."
Tom then joked that he would be 'sticking' to his original surname.
Tom's comments come shortly after Charles' younger brother, Prince Andrew, was forced to relinquish his royal titles and honours.
Andrew stepped down as a working royal in 2019 following the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and, earlier this month (17 October), he was made to surrender his final few honours, allegedly following pressure placed upon him from Charles.
This was in light of new revelations regarding his relationship with the dead sex offender, alongside the publication of his accuser Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir.
Though the royal has continuously 'vigorously denied' these claims, he and Giuffre reached an out-of-court settlement of an undisclosed sum in the US in 2022, in a bid to avoid a trial after she pursued legal action against him.
At the time, Andrew was forced to hand his military titles, royal patronages, and 'His Royal Highness' title back to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Insisting he'd done so to not distract 'from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family', Andrew claimed: "I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life. With His Majesty's agreement, we feel I must now go a step further.
"I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me."
This said, however, the royal will still be referred to as 'Prince', and still technically retains his dukedom which would require an act of parliament to strip from him.
Topics: Queen Camilla, Royal Family, King Charles III
Rhiannon Ingle