The close bond between Charles III and Camilla’s children and grandchildren: tips, Harry Potter books, laughter …

C.arlo III is the only European monarch with stepchildren. Two, to be precise: Tom and LauraHe is 47 years old, she is 44 years old, born from Camilla’s first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles. Both have built lives that have nothing to do with the Crown. She is a art gallery owner married to a former underwear model to which he gave three childrenhe is an established food critic and writer who has a divorce from the journalist behind him Sara Buys, mother of her two children, and an immense pain: in March 2021 her new partner, Alice Procope, was killed by cancer at the age of only 42. Although they live far from court, Tom and Laura have a very close relationship with King Carlo – who married their mother in 2005. Always.

In the mid-seventies, to say, Charles, then Prince of Wales, became Tom’s godfatherthe eldest son of Camilla, at the time his mistress, and Andrew Parker Bowles. Tom was a teenager when the relationship between Carlo and Camilla came to light in the nineties. Since then it began to be bullied at school but also persecuted by the paparazzi, who found him interesting mainly because of his excesses. For example the use of drugs.

In those difficult times, young Tom Parker Bowles he always had the support of his godfather. For example, according to the BBC in 1999, after hearing from the press that Tom he was using cocaine, Carlo phoned him and talked a long time, seriously, with him. To try to help him with her advice. Today Tom Parker Bowles is a well-known chef and food critic who has appeared in famous cooking shows including the UK edition of Masterchef. And when she talks about Carlo, she spends words full of affection and esteem for him. For example, in 2015 she declared: “I’ve always loved my stepfather. He has always been kind, good. He is a lovely man. He doesn’t give a damn what the press says. He is a man of great intelligence and humanity and I think one day he will be a fantastic king. And then it makes my mother happy and my mother makes him happy. This is the most important thing ».

Both Tom and his sister Laura Lopes (formerly Parker Bowles) in 2005 they participated in the marriage of the mother to the then Prince Charles (they were there with their half brothers, the prince William and the prince Harry). Just a few months later, Carlo and Camilla attended Tom’s wedding with the British journalist Sara Buys. While the following year they were at Laura’s wedding with British accountant Harry Lopes. Soon Camilla became a grandmother. Tom and his ex-wife, from whom he separated in 2018, had a daughter Lola in 2007 and the son Frederick in 2010. For her part, Laura Lopes gave birth in 2008 to a girl, Elizaand in 2009 i twins Gus and Louis. According to Camilla, Charles III is very fond of his grandchildren: “She gets down on her knees and crawls across the floor with them, making funny noises and giggling for hours. Or he reads it Harry Potter imitating the voices of the different characters. My grandchildren love itSaid the then Duchess of Cornwall in 2018.

Despite leading lives away from court, Tom and Laura have accompanied their mother to several public events in recent months. Last June, for example, they were at the ceremony with which Camilla was awarded the title of Lady of the Order of the Garter. Then they could not imagine that only three months later they would have participated in the funeral of Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey as children of the new queen consort. And they will return to Westminster Abbey in May 2023, when they will witness the coronation of their mother and stepfather.

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