Saturday, December 14, 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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