Queen Camilla’s son Tom Parker -Bowles says he would be ‘probably dead’ if he had a trust fund – and admits that he had to work ‘just like everyone else’

Tom Parker-Bowles has revealed that not having a trust fund when he was younger ‘probably’ saved his life.

Queen Camilla‘s Oldest Child, 50, located in Londondeepen in the interest that work has had on his life in the podcast White wine question time.

He told host Kate Thornton that if he had a trust fund and did not have to work for financial stability, his life would look very different.

‘Unfortunately, not a trust fund. You know, it’s actually a good thing not to have a trust fund. I would probably be dead if I had one, “Tom said frankly in the latest episode of the podcast.

He added: ‘Of course I had to work like everyone else. You know, you have to work. It is important.

“So I stumbled somewhat in writing food, 25 years ago when the landscape was quite different.”

Before he fell for writing food, Tom worked various jobs, including a short period in PR. He remembered: “I worked for a great film PR company called DDA and they ran Cannes and you would provide talent.”

‘So you would take Alicia Silverstone Round London in the 90s or Anna Friel or whatever. So it was not exactly the most difficult task for a straight man. It wasn’t the most heavy jobs, but I was always too late. ‘

‘I am still friends with my bosses, Stacey and Dennis, and they are lovely people. But in the end was enough. I was fired … so anyway, I was thinking around, you know, what the hell am I going to do?

Tom later established food and now makes a regular contribution to the post on Sunday and rural life.

It comes afterwards Tom remembered the embarrassing blunder he made when he met Queen Elizabeth II For the first time.

The food critic discussed his new book, Cooking & The Crown, which follows the history of royal culinary cuisine through the taste and preferences of the British king and queens.

Spend against The independentTom said that the book originally only royal recipes and anecdotes between the governments of claiming Queen Victoria And Queen Elizabeth II, who gave him a “degree of separation” because he had only met the late prince twice.

The first time was when he was eight, Tom remembered and added: “I was so afraid that I could buy instead of bent.”

When greeting the prince or a member of the royal familyMen traditionally bend their heads (a neck arch) while women do a small bream.

The next time he would meet the deceased queen, Camilla’s marriage would be King CharlesWhen he and his sister Laura Lopes ‘sniffing for a fagot or something’ and was lost Windsor Castle.

When the brother-sister duo was discovered by the ‘magnetic and beautiful’ queen, accompanied by her beloved Corgis, Tom said they ‘followed [her] Like two rather terrified but awe of puppies’.

Since the death of the queen, his book has become somewhat ‘closer to home’, with Tom including the recipes of his mother Camilla and the secret of preparing the favorite green omelet of his stepfather.

Tom appeared in an episode of the ITV1 program Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh to promote Cooking & The Crown, which was released in September last year.

During his segment in the show, Tom shared that food was always an important part of family life when he grew up in Wiltshire with his mother and his father, Andrew Parker BowlesCamilla’s first husband.

He described Camilla as a ‘good cook, a very simple English cook’ who hates recipes and is not fond of baking.

Tom told Titchmarsh: “MY father was and still is, I was about to say: Great Gardener, a good gardener in your company. He is a good gardener. He was very obsessed with his vegetable garden, so we … could follow the seasons through the garden.

“And my mother was a good cook. Is still a good cook, a very simple English cook. Did not like baking, did not like measurements … no scales and no recipes.

“You know, her roasted chicken, I’m sitting around endlessly …” Well, you just do it. ” So you should look. ‘

Queen Camilla acknowledged that her culinary skills are ‘limited’ in an interview with Tom Tom in Mail on the magazine Sunday in 2022.

Camilla described her culinary style as “nothing to assemble or picky or awkward,” said she learned to cook behind it looked at her mother, Rosalind Shand, who made Food the ‘heart’ of family life.

“One of my earliest memories is those peas and beans with my mother, a full cook,” she said. “I learned from my mother. I have never followed a recipe in my life.

“On Friday evening we were allowed to choose our dinner,” she remembered. “I always went for frozen chicken cake, much to my mother’s despair.”

Tom recently revealed that his mother Camilla is not part of the WhatsApp group of their family, because because She still uses an old Nokia Brick phone ‘for security reasons’.

He also announced that he has a hard time getting his mother since she became the Queen -Consort of Great -Britain, and added that he only teaches her place of residence when Tom sees her on TV.

He told Wife and at home Magazine: ‘She works much harder, she has always worked quite hard [so] It’s still the case of, I call my mother, she doesn’t answer, I watch on television [and think] “Ah! She is in Jersey.”

Royal fans will not be surprised to learn about the queen’s telephone choice, because she has previously revealed that she tells her grandchildren for using their phones at the dining table.

In 2022, the post spoke to her 75th birthday Camilla expressed her worries about social media, which she Described as a ‘double -edged sword‘, and admitted that she often tells her grandchildren to put away their’ flipping ‘phones.

“Families no longer sit down, they do and eat,” she said. ‘Because I am old, we sat down earlier [to eat]. Now everyone is on his devices. It just makes me pretty cross! ‘

Tom shares two children, the 17-year-old daughter Lola and the 15-year-old son Freddy, with his ex-wife Sara Buys.