This newfound connection to royal life rapidly grew to become life-threatening for each Tom and his mom – ‘especially in the bad days, the mid-Nineties,’ he defined, ‘the aggression of the paparazzi, the screaming, the shouting, and she didn’t have a network to protect her. I remember high-speed chases down the M4 that were incredibly dangerous.’
Queen Camilla herself has beforehand opened up about how troublesome that point was for her and her household. Speaking to British Vogue forward of her seventy fifth birthday, she admitted that ‘it’s not simple’ living underneath such the strain of such media scrutiny. ‘I was scrutinised for such a long time that you just have to find a way to live with it,’ defined the then Duchess of Cornwall. ‘Nobody likes to be looked at all the time and, you know, criticised and … but I think in the end, I sort of rise above it and get on with it.’
As Tom Parker Bowles displays on ‘birth, death, and taxes’, King Charles has this week shared a extremely private reflection on the ‘daunting’ and ‘frightening’ expertise of his most cancers prognosis. His Majesty urged fellow victims to take inspiration from the late Dame Deborah James, who died from the illness in 2022, and ‘find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets; and always, always have rebellious hope.’
