Queen Camilla’s son has her back. The royal’s eldest child, son Tom Parker Bowles, whom she shares with ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, made a rare comment about his mother’s marriage to King Charles ahead of her and the monarch’s May 6 coronation where they will formally be crowned King and Queen. “I don’t care what anyone says.
This wasn’t any sort of end game,” Tom, 48, said while appearing on Thursday’s episode of “The News Agents” podcast. “She married the person she loved and this is what happened.” READ MORE: King Charles III’s Coronation Invitation Confirms Queen Camilla’s New Royal Title, New Portrait Unveiled Camilla and Charles met back in 1970 and remained close over the following years, even while Charles was married to Princess Diana, whom he welcomed sons Prince William and Prince Harry with in the early ’80s.
Their romance began as controversial when Charles admitted in a 1994 interview with British journalist Jonathan Dimbleby that he was faithful to the then-Princess of Wales “until it became clear that the marriage had irretrievably broken down.” Two years later, in 1996, he officially divorced Diana.
Prior to Diana’s death in 1997, she also admitted to having an affair in a 1995 BBC Panorama interview. While speaking of herself, Charles and Camilla, she told the outlet: “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” READ MORE: King Charles And Queen Camilla Will Be The Oldest Royals To Be Crowned In British History That same year, Camilla divorced Andrew.
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