When Prince Charles is king, his wife Camilla, at the behest of Elizabeth II, will become queen consort. And now the British press is asking: that day his children, Tom and Laura, will they have a title? The two, he is 47 years old, she is 44 years old, born from Camilla’s first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, they don’t have a drop of blue blood and they 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 Buysmother of her two children, and immense pain: in March 2021 her new partner, Alice Procope, was killed by cancer at the age of only 42.
Tom and Laura are stepbrother And stepsister of William and Harry, Charles of England is their stepfather, but we always talk about them very little. “Laura and I are not part of the royal family, to be honest”, explained Tom a Good Morning Britain in December 2018, «My mother married Prince Charles. She is part of it. We are like everyone else ». But Camilla, one day, will be queen. And that day, for Tom and Laura, things could change. Some royal observers in fact expect that the two will receive a noble title: “We have never had children of a king or queen who are left untitledExplained royal commentator Brian Hoey. Nobody knows what the title in question could be. Will Tom and Laura become accounts? Dukes? Or will they continue to live an existence without blazons? Charles, when he is king, plans a leaner and less expensive monarchy. Therefore, as other real observers point out, he will hardly dispense new titles. Among other things, if Tom and Laura were really “elevated” to the rank of aristocrats, they would receive much more attention from the media. Attentions that have always escaped and from which mother Camilla has always tried to protect them, especially in the most turbulent years, those of the divorce of Carlo, then her lover, from Diana.
Laura and Tom, at the time, at school they were bullied over their mother’s relationship with the prince. And it seems that, always at the time, there was bad blood between Laura and William: both accused their parents of destroying their families. Those times are long gone. Tom and Laura have been close friends with William and Harry for years now. Precisely because as teenagers they shared the same difficult times due to the relationship between their respective parents. In May 2018, at the Duke of Sussex’s wedding with Meghan Markle, Laura and Tom were there: he was in a tight suit, she was wearing a light green dress, they sat in Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel without attracting media attention. And in 2011, at the wedding of Kate and William, Laura’s eldest daughter, Eliza, was even one of the bride’s bridesmaids. Tom and Laura also attended, of course, to the marriage of the mother with the future kingin 2005 in St. George’s Chapel of Windsor Castle: they date back to that day – it was April 8 – le only official photos of Laura and Tom in the company of the bride and groom and the Windsor brothers (you see gallery under). The life of Camilla’s two children has so far always been far from court. How they like it. And who knows if, when a crown is placed on the mother’s head, something will really change in their lives.
Source: Vanity Fair