{"id":238865,"date":"2025-07-05T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:28:09","slug":"queen-camillas-four-word-motto-for-getting-through-tough-times-revealed-by-son-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238865\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla\u2019s four-word motto for getting through tough times revealed by son | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Camilla<\/a> may now be the most senior female member of the Royal Family,<\/a> but this wasn\u2019t always the case. Until her marriage to King Charles<\/a>, when he was the Prince of Wales in 2005, Camilla subjected to a torrent of abuse and criticism.<\/p>\n

Having been romantically involved with Charles during his marriage with Diana, Princess of Wales,<\/a> Camilla, now 77, was not very popular among the general public during the 1990s. She also experienced a lot of intrusion from the paparazzi,<\/a> which even resulted in her struggling to leave her home.<\/p>\n

While this was undoubtedly a tough time for Her Majesty,\u00a0 her son Tom Parker-Bowles<\/a> has revealed in a podcast this week that she has a four-word motto for getting through difficult periods of life, with Camilla reportedly relying on the phrase \u201cyou have to laugh\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Kate Thornton\u2019s podcast White Wine Question Time this week<\/a>, Tom said: \u201cAs my mother said, you have to laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can’t laugh about certain things\u2026 that’s what’s kept her going I think, a sense of humour.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be able to laugh at things. And whenever things got bad, we just pulled back together like the Roman centurions moving into their tortoise formation with the shields around.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important, that power of togetherness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom also said that Camilla went through \u201chell\u201d in the 1990s as a result of the paparazzi, who would often wait outside her home to get a shot of her.<\/p>\n

He said on the podcast this week: \u201cDuring the 90s, it was hell for her, with the paparazzi and being chased at high speeds by these absolute nutters, in sort of cutting you up and they were everywhere, it was a time of unbridled tabloid excess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camilla also addressed the difficulty she faced during this time a few years ago in an article for The Daily Mail<\/a>, in which she said: \u201cIt was horrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a deeply unpleasant time and I wouldn\u2019t want to put my worst enemy through it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla may now be the most senior female member of the Royal Family, but this wasn\u2019t always…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,2607,43406,92958,13571,92957,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-238865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-queen-camilla","13":"tag-queen-camilla-king-charles","14":"tag-queen-camilla-paparazzi","15":"tag-queen-camilla-royal-family","16":"tag-queen-camilla-tom-parker-bowles","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798035105364201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}