Queen Camilla’s Son Says He’s Never Gone to a Royal Christmas “For Various Reasons”

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Being Queen Camilla’s son obviously comes with its perks, but it looks like attending the royal Christmas celebrations isn’t one of them. Tom Parker Bowles opened People about his life as king’s stepsonand admitted during the interview that he had never attended the traditional Christmas gathering at the Sandringham estate.

“We’re married, we’re not Royal Ramily,” she said of herself and sister Laura Lopes, adding: “I never said that for a second.”

Although Parker Bowles, 49, who recently released a royal cookbook titled Cooking and Crown— He said he found the Royal Family “incredibly nice and friendly” but led a very different life. The father of two said he and his children Lola, 17, and Freddy, 14, with whom he lives with ex-wife Sara Buys, were “not running around in palaces”.

“I haven’t been to Christmas yet for various reasons,” she shared.

As for “various reasons,” it has been suggested that Prince William is not Parker Bowles’ biggest fan, a source says Daily Monster “Best to avoid mentioning Tom around William,” he wrote in July. An insider said the Prince of Wales was hesitant about his half-brother’s “rather lazy lifestyle as a Mayfair resident”.

But recently British Vogue In the interview, the cookbook author said that when it comes to William and Kate, “I absolutely adore them both,” so perhaps she’s stayed away from royal Christmas gatherings for other reasons.

Talking about the rest of the royal family, the food critic said: People o “York girls” Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice “They were two of the nicest women you could ever hope to meet.”

“We live in 2024 and we have blended families… If they are happy, we are happy and everything starts from there,” he said. People from his mother and stepfather.

Parker Bowles – recently admitted that it was tough being Queen Camilla’s son in the ’90s. sometimes “incredibly dangerous”– shared that, like many other families with divorced parents, he later hosted a Christmas celebration with his father.

“My mother and father still great friends “We will land on December 27 and my mother will come from time to time,” he said. People His parents separated in the 90s.

“This is something that needs to be worked on,” added Parker Bowles, who is also divorced. “That’s a wonderful maturity, if you can sometimes have a marriage that doesn’t work, but you can keep it together for the sake of the children and the family. For the sake of each other, then that’s a very good thing.”