Sunday, December 15, 2024 - Tom Parker Bowles, 49, the son of the Queen of England, Camilla, has opened up in a new interview about his impressions of the challenges his stepbrothers Prince William and Prince Harry have faced with public scrutiny.
Queen Camilla's told The Telegraph that even
though his own experiences with this kind of public scrutiny were far less
intense than what William and Harry had dealt with, it gave him a sense of the
difficulties they endured, particularly as they were growing up.
Tom, a broadcaster and food writer, is the eldest child
of Queen Camilla and her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, and saw
firsthand the intense public attention that his mother received due to her
romantic connection to King Charles during the monarch's first marriage to
Diana.
In his younger years, he got a taste of the constant
scrutiny that his stepbrothers William and Harry have been under their entire
lives, and called what the brothers have been put through
"appalling".
"I remember being chased at 100mph by paps trying to
get a shot. My mother being screamed at to try to get a reaction. Pushing,
jostling. It was horrific, and you are protective of your mother. Counting how
many paps were at the gates, to see who was watching us and taking photographs:
it was all as normal as bacon and eggs in the morning. You didn't think of it
in any other way … [But] it was barbaric."
While Tom showed some hesitance to speak about his
stepbrothers, he could not help but express sympathy for how much worse they
have had it. "I learned a long time ago not to put my fat fingers into
the world of William and Harry," the food writer said. "But
it was appalling what they went through. I've had a billionth of what they've
had to go through but hell, I sympathise."
Camilla and Charles were romantically on and off for
decades, but it was only in 2005 following their marriage that William and
Harry gained two step-siblings, Tom and Laura, 46.
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