{"id":239193,"date":"2025-07-05T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239193\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:31:09","slug":"tom-parker-bowles-makes-sad-admission-about-hell-queen-camilla-went-through-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239193\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Parker-Bowles makes sad admission about \u2018hell\u2019 Queen Camilla went through | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Camilla\u2019s son<\/a> has made a heartbreaking admission today about the \u201chell\u201d his mother went through when her affair with King Charles, when he was the Prince of Wales, was made public knowledge. Their Majesties were reportedly romantically involved with one another while being married<\/a> to their first spouses, with this coming to light in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

This resulted in a lot of public anger towards Camilla<\/a>, who was then pursued by the paparazzi for a long time. Her son Tom Parker-Bowles, 50, has now said this was \u201chell\u201d for his mother, who had to deal with this intrusion almost daily.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Kate Thornton\u2019s podcast White Wine Question Time this week<\/a>, Tom said: \u201cMy mother, as the Queen now, is doing a magnificent job, we\u2019re all incredibly proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cBut during 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was getting a bit at that point in the 90s, it got quite excessive.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother’s tough. She got through it. But it was really, tough on some people, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Tom has addressed how Camilla, now 77, was treated by the paparazzi<\/a> when her relationship with Charles first came to light.<\/p>\n

He said in a previous interview that he remembers high-speed chases down motorways, and even said he saw his mother being screamed at by photographers.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Telegraph previously<\/a>, the food critic, who said paparazzi used to hide outside the family\u2019s home, said: “It was the very height of the tabloid era. I remember being chased at 100mph by paps trying to get a shot. My mother being screamed at to try to get a reaction. Pushing, jostling. It was horrific, and you are protective of your mother.”<\/p>\n

Queen Camilla also once previously shared her experiences with The Daily Mail<\/a>, in which she said she struggled to leave the house due to paparazzi after it emerged that she was in a relationship with Charles in 1999 – two years after Princess Diana\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the experience, Her Majesty said: \u201cIt was horrid. It 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\u2019s son has made a heartbreaking admission today about the \u201chell\u201d his mother went through when her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239194,"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-239193","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\/114798754890642803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239193","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=239193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}