Current:Home > reviewsQueen Camilla’s Son Tom Parker Bowles Makes Rare Comments on Her Marriage to King Charles -WealthFocus Academy
Queen Camilla’s Son Tom Parker Bowles Makes Rare Comments on Her Marriage to King Charles
View
Date:2025-04-19 12:53:20
Tom Parker Bowles has shared royally rare words on his mother Queen Camilla's marriage to King Charles III.
Leading up to the monarch and his wife's coronation, the 48-year-old, whose father is Camilla's ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, shared his thoughts on the couple's relationship.
"I don't care what anyone says. This wasn't any sort of end game," Tom said on the April 20 episode of The News Agents. "She married the person she loved and this is what happened."
Camilla and Charles' head-turning romance initially stirred controversy. The two met in 1970 and kept a close relationship over the years. That tight connection remained even when Charles was married to Princess Diana, who he welcomed sons Prince William and Prince Harry with in 1982 and 1984, respectively.
Two years before officially divorcing Diana in 1996, Charles admitted in a 1994 interview with British journalist Jonathan Dimbleby that he remained faithful to the Princess of Wales "until it became clear that the marriage had irretrievably broken down."
In 1995, two years before her death, Diana said in a BBC Panorama interview that she too had had an affair, and that with regard to herself, Charles and Camilla, "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
Also in 1995, Camilla divorced Tom's father.
Fast forward years later, and Harry wrote in his 2023 memoir Spare that he and his brother William were more than against their father marrying Camilla.
"Despite Willy and I urging him not to, Pas was going ahead," Harry wrote. "We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings. We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he'd always loved, the woman Fate might've intended for him in the first place. Whatever bitterness or sorrow we felt over the closing of another loop in Mummy's story, we understood that it was beside the point."
NBC News reached out to Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace and a rep for Prince Harry. All have declined to comment.
Following the September 2022 death of Queen Elizabeth II, Camila and Charles' coronation is set to take place May 6. During the service, Charles will be formally crowned alongside Camilla.
As for if Harry will be in attendance? A rep for Harry and his wife Meghan Markle told E! News April 12 that Harry will be there to see his father crowned. Meanwhile, Meghan will remain in California with kids Archie Harrison, 3, and Lilibet Diana, 22 months.
At the time, Buckingham Palace also confirmed Harry's attendance for the coronation.
During Tom's appearance on the April 20 episode of The News Agents podcast, when asked if there was any "panic" surrounding the topic of Harry and Meghan's attendance, he noted, "That has nothing to do with me at all."
Get the latest tea from inside the palace walls. Sign up for Royal Recap!veryGood! (4144)
Related
- Bill Belichick's salary at North Carolina: School releases football coach's contract details
- Philippines leader Marcos’ visit to Hawaii boosts US-Philippines bond and recalls family history
- Formula 1, Las Vegas Grand Prix facing class-action lawsuit over forcing fans out Thursday
- CBS to host Golden Globes in 2024
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- French Holocaust survivors are recoiling at new antisemitism, and activists are pleading for peace
- Cassie Settles Lawsuit Accusing Sean Diddy Combs of Rape and Abuse
- Nordstrom's Black Friday Deals: Save Up To 70% On Clothes, Accessories, Decor & More
- Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires
- New Orleans civil rights activist’s family home listed on National Register of Historic Places
Ranking
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- Roadside bomb kills 3 people in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit Baluchistan province
- Sugar prices are rising worldwide after bad weather tied to El Nino damaged crops in Asia
- Argentine presidential candidate Milei goes to the opera — and meets both cheers and jeers
- Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
- Brazil surprise songs: See the tunes Taylor Swift played in Rio de Janeiro
- K-12 schools improve protection against online attacks, but many are vulnerable to ransomware gangs
- 'It felt like a movie': Chiefs-Rams scoring outburst still holds indelible place in NFL history
Recommendation
Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
Americans have tipping fatigue entering the holidays, experts say
Baltimore police fired 36 shots at armed man, bodycam recordings show
Texas pushes some textbook publishers to remove material on fossil fuels
Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are
Bruins forward Milan Lucic taking leave of absence after reported arrest for domestic incident
Israeli drone fires missiles at aluminum plant in south Lebanon