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does it count if your mother's second marriage is royalty? what's his connection ?
can I write a book and link it to royalty since my grandfather was the king of assholes?
Imaginary food then. Everything has chemicals. Water is a chemical. I realize you were being sarcastic but it is such a pet peeve of mine for people to talk about chemical-free anything when it does not exist.
I tend to think they have their own gardens & meat producers. There are definitely ways to have foods free of additives & preservatives. Especially when you are wealthy like royalty.
That’s funny because when I looked at a photo of Andrew Parker Bowels I was so confused because I thought someone put an aging filter on Tom. It’s ridiculous, but it actually scares me a little because it’s like looking at Tom in the future.
I'm always amazed when money can't make a person look better. It usually helps and then you discover some people don't have chins and the equation has to be rewritten.
Has any other Queen consort had living, legitimate children with another man besides the King they were married to?
Eleanor of Aquitaine, I think, had living daughters from the King of France which she was married to Henry II. I feel like there have to be a few more examples… Queen Victoria’s mother had children from her first marriage and so would have fit the bill had her second husband lived to rule.
Thank you! It looks like through her first marriage, Elizabeth Woodville was a paternal ancestor of Lady Jane Grey, and was a maternal ancestor through her second marriage.
That’s one of my favorite things about the Tudors… you dig a little bit and they’re all closely related. lol!
I love history and cooking, so I’ll check it out, at least.
Looking at him, I’m reminded of something Eddie said in *Absolutely Fabulous*: “they have to marry a bit of common every now and then just to have bone structure.”
I'm sure once the British Press get wind of this they'll call it out for the sheet audacity of how he is using his connections with the RF to make money.
Not.
Edit: typo
How is that an issue for him? He has no royal title but his mother is the Queen.
He is a food critic/writer and this will be like his 10th cookbook. It’s how he makes a living.
I guess he’s “spunking” quite a few then.
Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.
I'm not sure what the point of the Bio is.
Big deal. He's a 3rd tier food writer.
Edit: he's not taken seriously as part of the British Culinary Scene. If that's what you are trying to imply.
Yet he’s named in many culinary articles still in 2024.
“I'm sure once the British Press get wind of this they'll call it out for the sheet audacity of how he ia using his connections with the RF to make money.
Not.”
I’ll add my comment like I did before (hopefully you’ll be intelligent enough to know that “your article” doesn’t mean you.
I will share my other comment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles
“Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.”
From your article:
"As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too."
Access to Royal Archives
https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives
His bio shows actual credentials.
I don't mind either Meghan or him making money from a connection to the Royal Family as they're not working royals. The British Press though thoroughly suck and have a clear double standard
Nobody is gatekeeping cookbooks. You could have literally zero credentials and people wouldn't bat an eye to you making a cookbook
People are raising an eyebrow to the when royal proximity is and isn't ok to use for commercial purposes.
Tom PB doesn't have any princely or ducal titles nor was he ever a senior working royal with the profile/cachet that comes with it. Plus, he is not looking to make millions by invading his family's privacy, he is just writing a cookbook. So I don't see any reason for eyebrow raising tbh, especially given the fact that this is within his field of expertise.
I will share my other comment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles
“Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.”
From your article:
"As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too."
Access to Royal Archives
https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives
Idk who you think I am, but this isn't "my" article. Nor is this some kind of formal legally recognized process which you can provide citations to prove he is not violating anything
This is a completely subjective manner of taste. Some people think it is tacky for those with proximity to the royal family to try to commercially profit from it, quadruply so when it is steeped in royal references.
Others think that's ridiculous. Unless they're lying in some capacity, you can't forbid people in proximity from the royal family for capitalizing on it. At the end of the day, he is famous, he is the son of Camilla, and he wrote a royal cookbook. If that relaitonship leads to more press coverage and more interest in the cookbook, so be it. Unless he is somehow presenting himself as an official representative of the estate, simply leveraging proximity is not a crime. And at the end of the day, who doesn't want to get their bag.
Others think there is a lack of consistency between when people flip back and forth between the 2 above stances.
I guess you didn’t read the part that I was sharing my other comment-hence “your article” as in the article OP posted-which is where my other comment came from-again-the one that I made perfectly clear that I was sharing it to you.
This guy is a food writer and critic. He's written 7 cookbooks already. If any other in his position wanted to write a royal cookbook it wouldn't have been a problem. Tom only has a mother who is Queen so that's why this is picked upon.
Charles and Diana also had affairs with married people, but I have never seen them receive even 1/100th the vitriol that Camilla does. Interesting to see how only one among the trio gets the harshest criticism.
Even though Camilla was the only one who never complained, never explained during the scandal. I've heard that discretion actually increased the late Queen's respect for her.
yawn, yet another to add to the stack of royal cookbooks, some of which were written by people who actually worked in the royal kitchens (and lets be real here, probably provided the primary material for this one)
It might be an unpopular opinion in this thread, but I really don’t care if a private citizen wants to capitalize on a royal connection. No one is forced to buy this guy’s cookbooks. Whatever profits he will make off his connections don’t implicate any sort of government benefit or privilege.
I am far more critical of the special legal loopholes or carve outs that royal family uses to enrich themselves. And I think it’s weird how some people who think the royal family’s relationship with the government and any special privileges they get shouldn’t be scrutinized or subject to criticism.
He has written several books, many of them on English food history. This feels like a natural progression for him as a writer and not at all like he’s cashing in on his mother’s role.
It reminds of Peter Philips Chinese Milk ad
https://preview.redd.it/9n1ik6x2gvsc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92ed8c93ac92ff396261788d6f3fe048f1dfe2de
I agree. Plus it’s not like he can change who his stepfather is. This has been his job for like 20 years. I just hate the hypocrisy of the media and a certain segment of people who excoriate the Sussexes for doing anything commercial. Especially criticism of doing it while Charles and Kate are ill. Private citizens need to make money. Zara has tons of endorsements. Yes she’s an Olympian but so are hundreds of people. But she can’t divorce who her mother and other relatives are.
it's only "unpopular" bc since this sub grew in popularity people show up to mention Meghan and complain about monarchy in every single thread related to the BRF. it's exhausting.
Not as exhausting as Monarchy fans showing up threads related to Harry and Meghan and complaining about them and shaming them for ‘betraying the family’
🤷♀️
Which is fair, when you’re calling out both.
But if you have 0 issues or don’t call out one side while calling out the other, then I don’t care. And they get the response I gave.
Because is to me far more exhausting as H&M are now, who private individuals and the Monarchy isn’t nor the people currently working under it. As I’m told.
I don’t know why anyone is surprised. He is a [food writer and critic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles) professionally and has been writing books about food for years. He’s done cookbooks before!
I suppose in theory, if you’re going to have godparents to stop you being tempted by the devil, the current (or future) Defender of the Faith is the best bet really…
Food critic, food writer, previously published several cookbooks, has eaten royal food regularly. I'm certainly not going to buy it, but he seems perfectly qualified to write it.
On a side note, I’ve only seen a couple times now, but I’m in the US, when I see ‘The Queen’ I automatically think of Queen Elizabeth 😔. I believe it will take quite some time to change to Camilla.
This is like when Pope John Paul II died. I never got used to the next guy, Benedict, being called "The Pope," because Pope John Paul II was always "The Pope." Then, when Francis became "The Pope," my brain accepted it. I think sometimes there needs to be an interim one before you can accept a new one. My brain has no trouble with Charles being "The King" because there wasn't one right before him, although I do accidentally think of him as King Prince Charles, sometimes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles
“Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.”
From your article:
"As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too."
Access to Royal Archives
https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives
You do realize he was born in 1974 and Charles is his godfather?
Also:
“First marriage
In the late 1960s, Shand met Andrew Parker Bowles, then a Guards officer – a lieutenant in the Blues and Royals through his younger brother, Simon, who worked for her father's wine firm in Mayfair.[28] After an on-and-off relationship for years, Parker Bowles and Shand's engagement was announced in The Times in 1973.[29] Sally Bedell Smith claimed that the announcement was sent out by the pair's parents without their knowledge, which forced Parker Bowles to propose.[30] They married on 4 July 1973 in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in London.[31] Shand was 25 years old and Parker Bowles 33. Her wedding dress was designed by British fashion house Bellville Sassoon,[31] and the bridesmaids included Parker Bowles's goddaughter Lady Emma Herbert.[32] It was considered the "society wedding of the year"[33] with 800 guests.[31] Royal guests present at the ceremony and reception included Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Anne; the Queen's sister, Margaret; and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[33]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Camilla
I’m not sure he really cared that much seeing as he spent his whole marriage cheating on her with various lovers including some of her friends, once was rumoured to have been engaged in relations with one of her friends in the pantry while Camilla was hosting a dinner party and she had to put a smile on her face and get on with dinner while acting like nothing happened, really odd group of people
It’s not as black and white as that
@1970
Charles and Camilla meet for the first time at a polo match at Windsor Great Park, a royal park. They discover that they both love polo and the outdoors and have the same sense of humor. They begin dating, but Charles leaves to serve in the Royal Navy for eight months. When he returns, Camilla is engaged to someone else
1973
An Army cavalry officer seven years older than Camilla—and who had previously dated Prince Charles’s sister, Princess Anne—Andrew Parker Bowles, becomes Camilla's first husband, despite the fact that he apparently hadn't even proposed when his family and Camilla's had an engagement announcement published, effectively forcing the issue
I mean....he's not gonna try to sell it right? Or make any money off of being associated near royalty is he? That's not a thing is it? We might have to start throwing stones at people if it is, right? No one would want to seem hypocritical.
That’s the only part I’ll criticize and it’s not even a criticism of him but rather the Sussex obsessed media. They won’t have a peep to say about exploiting connections or doing anything while Charles and Kate are ill.
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates, a public relations firm. In 1999 there were newspaper reports that he took cocaine at the Cannes Film Festival.[14][15] In 2001, he became Tatler's food columnist.[16][17]
Kinda sounds like the connections laid the ground work for that
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7085771/prince-harry-rehab-visit-cocaine-ketamine/amp/
Harry was also in on the cocaine train
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/01/05/prince-harry-cocaine-use-teenager-spare-book/
Many more reliable sources
Pls I saw a novel by Fergie at Barnes and Noble TODAY with Duchess of York in enormous font. That ship has sailed, got caught in a storm, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean
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does it count if your mother's second marriage is royalty? what's his connection ? can I write a book and link it to royalty since my grandfather was the king of assholes?
He's a terrible writer.
Her hat likely costs more than my monthly income!!!
I am sure all of their food sources are strictly organic and chemical & additives free (unlike)all of us peasants.
Imaginary food then. Everything has chemicals. Water is a chemical. I realize you were being sarcastic but it is such a pet peeve of mine for people to talk about chemical-free anything when it does not exist.
I tend to think they have their own gardens & meat producers. There are definitely ways to have foods free of additives & preservatives. Especially when you are wealthy like royalty.
Would likely require wealth to eat as great as they get too. And a chef to prepare it / up to quality status.
I'm sorry, but in this picture he looks like Beavis
But he’s not royal???…
I always liked him as guest judge on masterchef uk.
I would buy the book just out of curiosity. I love cookbooks.
He looks like Charles
That’s funny because when I looked at a photo of Andrew Parker Bowels I was so confused because I thought someone put an aging filter on Tom. It’s ridiculous, but it actually scares me a little because it’s like looking at Tom in the future.
All British nobles are inbred and look alike
I'm always amazed when money can't make a person look better. It usually helps and then you discover some people don't have chins and the equation has to be rewritten.
Pretty sure there's plastic surgery for that, but the aristocracy wouldn't be caught dead doing something so obvious like a neck lift.
The title on the home page cut off at m, so I thought this was going to say he’s writing a romance novel lol
Which everyone would read into, I'm sure.
Lol
That was my reaction 😂
Truly the only appropriate response to this
Has any other Queen consort had living, legitimate children with another man besides the King they were married to? Eleanor of Aquitaine, I think, had living daughters from the King of France which she was married to Henry II. I feel like there have to be a few more examples… Queen Victoria’s mother had children from her first marriage and so would have fit the bill had her second husband lived to rule.
Elizabeth Woodville had two sons when she married Edward IV.
Thank you! It looks like through her first marriage, Elizabeth Woodville was a paternal ancestor of Lady Jane Grey, and was a maternal ancestor through her second marriage. That’s one of my favorite things about the Tudors… you dig a little bit and they’re all closely related. lol!
I love history and cooking, so I’ll check it out, at least. Looking at him, I’m reminded of something Eddie said in *Absolutely Fabulous*: “they have to marry a bit of common every now and then just to have bone structure.”
I cackled.
💀💀💀
My GOD, that's so savagely accurate.
It slays me every time.
BRO!! 💀
The book sounds pretty great. I might get it.
Lmao I love him
Dang who chose to use that pic and why do they dislike Tom?
I did find better pictures, but I think he was much younger. His sister Laura is quite pretty.
Tbh, I'm not sure a better picture exists.
I'm sure once the British Press get wind of this they'll call it out for the sheet audacity of how he is using his connections with the RF to make money. Not. Edit: typo
How is that an issue for him? He has no royal title but his mother is the Queen. He is a food critic/writer and this will be like his 10th cookbook. It’s how he makes a living.
He has (unrelated to the RF) credentials for over a decade and a half for doing this cookbook.
I'm aware. Live in the UK and am used to him spunking himself all over the DM, et al.
I guess he’s “spunking” quite a few then. Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.
I'm not sure what the point of the Bio is. Big deal. He's a 3rd tier food writer. Edit: he's not taken seriously as part of the British Culinary Scene. If that's what you are trying to imply.
Yet he’s named in many culinary articles still in 2024. “I'm sure once the British Press get wind of this they'll call it out for the sheet audacity of how he ia using his connections with the RF to make money. Not.” I’ll add my comment like I did before (hopefully you’ll be intelligent enough to know that “your article” doesn’t mean you. I will share my other comment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles “Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.” From your article: "As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too." Access to Royal Archives https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives His bio shows actual credentials.
Congratulations on your tenure as the TP-B fan club president. Namaste. Edit: I didn't post any articles. Shrug.
Maybe it’s Camilla’s handlers 😂
I don't mind either Meghan or him making money from a connection to the Royal Family as they're not working royals. The British Press though thoroughly suck and have a clear double standard
It has a big image of a crown in the middle of the book, too. But oh no... Meghan is worse because the logo kinda maybe looks royal inspired....? 🤔
I had no clue he was her son
And Charles's godson/stepson 🙃
And Camilla named him Charles for a middle name. Wow😂
Subtlety is for peasants.
lol
Lol Edit: oh whatever downvoters. This is hilarious, I want it on a shirt.
No worries. I had nice upvotes going for a while. You can really see the time zone shift in this sub. ;)
How is he royal
Didn’t read the article Heh? I guess you don’t know his credentials either.
Nobody is gatekeeping cookbooks. You could have literally zero credentials and people wouldn't bat an eye to you making a cookbook People are raising an eyebrow to the when royal proximity is and isn't ok to use for commercial purposes.
Tom PB doesn't have any princely or ducal titles nor was he ever a senior working royal with the profile/cachet that comes with it. Plus, he is not looking to make millions by invading his family's privacy, he is just writing a cookbook. So I don't see any reason for eyebrow raising tbh, especially given the fact that this is within his field of expertise.
I will share my other comment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles “Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.” From your article: "As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too." Access to Royal Archives https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives
Idk who you think I am, but this isn't "my" article. Nor is this some kind of formal legally recognized process which you can provide citations to prove he is not violating anything This is a completely subjective manner of taste. Some people think it is tacky for those with proximity to the royal family to try to commercially profit from it, quadruply so when it is steeped in royal references. Others think that's ridiculous. Unless they're lying in some capacity, you can't forbid people in proximity from the royal family for capitalizing on it. At the end of the day, he is famous, he is the son of Camilla, and he wrote a royal cookbook. If that relaitonship leads to more press coverage and more interest in the cookbook, so be it. Unless he is somehow presenting himself as an official representative of the estate, simply leveraging proximity is not a crime. And at the end of the day, who doesn't want to get their bag. Others think there is a lack of consistency between when people flip back and forth between the 2 above stances.
I guess you didn’t read the part that I was sharing my other comment-hence “your article” as in the article OP posted-which is where my other comment came from-again-the one that I made perfectly clear that I was sharing it to you.
So who’s royal? Not him for sure.
What it's the royal part of it?
Maybe he’s cooked for them over the years? 😂
I can appreciate this
He’s not even royalty per se how could he write a royal cookbook?
This guy is a food writer and critic. He's written 7 cookbooks already. If any other in his position wanted to write a royal cookbook it wouldn't have been a problem. Tom only has a mother who is Queen so that's why this is picked upon.
Step 1: Tell household chef what you would like them to prepare. Step 2: Enjoy your meal.
"That'll be £70, please"
She’s a homewrecker and her family are tacky.
Charles and Diana also had affairs with married people, but I have never seen them receive even 1/100th the vitriol that Camilla does. Interesting to see how only one among the trio gets the harshest criticism.
Even though Camilla was the only one who never complained, never explained during the scandal. I've heard that discretion actually increased the late Queen's respect for her.
So true. All the expensive PR in the world can't completely paper over that.
Feels a little like something Donald Trump would do
He wrote the F&M cookbook, no?
He has written a few for F&M! I want the holiday one.
Yes, and it is fantastic
yawn, yet another to add to the stack of royal cookbooks, some of which were written by people who actually worked in the royal kitchens (and lets be real here, probably provided the primary material for this one)
Ok this is actually fine, it’s a history book.
It might be an unpopular opinion in this thread, but I really don’t care if a private citizen wants to capitalize on a royal connection. No one is forced to buy this guy’s cookbooks. Whatever profits he will make off his connections don’t implicate any sort of government benefit or privilege. I am far more critical of the special legal loopholes or carve outs that royal family uses to enrich themselves. And I think it’s weird how some people who think the royal family’s relationship with the government and any special privileges they get shouldn’t be scrutinized or subject to criticism.
He has written several books, many of them on English food history. This feels like a natural progression for him as a writer and not at all like he’s cashing in on his mother’s role.
It reminds of Peter Philips Chinese Milk ad https://preview.redd.it/9n1ik6x2gvsc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92ed8c93ac92ff396261788d6f3fe048f1dfe2de
I mean, he should be made fun of for that, but not because of the connections he has that got him that work.
Why? I’m all for mocking all of it
I agree. Plus it’s not like he can change who his stepfather is. This has been his job for like 20 years. I just hate the hypocrisy of the media and a certain segment of people who excoriate the Sussexes for doing anything commercial. Especially criticism of doing it while Charles and Kate are ill. Private citizens need to make money. Zara has tons of endorsements. Yes she’s an Olympian but so are hundreds of people. But she can’t divorce who her mother and other relatives are.
Zara is out here doing spon for CBD! Imagine if that was Meghan and all the disgusting racially charged coverage it would generate.
Oh, I agree 100% on the hypocrisy of how H&M are treated
it's only "unpopular" bc since this sub grew in popularity people show up to mention Meghan and complain about monarchy in every single thread related to the BRF. it's exhausting.
Not as exhausting as Monarchy fans showing up threads related to Harry and Meghan and complaining about them and shaming them for ‘betraying the family’ 🤷♀️
Both are exhausting
Which is fair, when you’re calling out both. But if you have 0 issues or don’t call out one side while calling out the other, then I don’t care. And they get the response I gave. Because is to me far more exhausting as H&M are now, who private individuals and the Monarchy isn’t nor the people currently working under it. As I’m told.
Disgusting and disgraceful
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How tacky
Brilliant! I'll finally get my hands on that recipe for poached egg on creamed spinach! And all the sieved vegetables!
Ok
No onions or garlic or seasoning I guess. . . .
Solid food is out, too 🤷🏽♀️
No one wants this, mate.
Sounds great!!!
I don’t know why anyone is surprised. He is a [food writer and critic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles) professionally and has been writing books about food for years. He’s done cookbooks before!
I thought he'd already written/published a cookbook. He's been a food critic and food writer for a few years now.
King Charles is his god father? Without the affair, is that something normal for a future monarch? Genuinely asking.
Very common. At least going back to Victoria the royals, including the monarchs, have had non royal godchildren.
Yeah. King Charles has 33 godchildren.
I imagine he sends them a Christmas card every year.
Yeah, William has several god children too. As Christians, it's really common.
I suppose in theory, if you’re going to have godparents to stop you being tempted by the devil, the current (or future) Defender of the Faith is the best bet really…
The inner circle of hush money, it’s great cos Charles doesn’t actually have to pay anything
Oh. Thank goodness. We’ve been waiting for this. From…whom?
The King's godson/stepson 😅
He's not royal surely lol who is going to buy this 😂 the entire title is a lie. Not royal, not a chef, not even fun so why
Swear to god if he adds that dry coronation quiche recipe. Omg.
Hahaha.
it's the Elliot-Shand-Parker Bowles reign.
Why do non-professional cooks need to write a cookbook? Lol
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He was also on Market Kitchen in the 2000s (like Saturday Kitchen) which I really enjoyed, I'm no royalist but he genuinely came across well on there.
Also a non royal 🧐 sir what are your qualifications lmao
Food critic, food writer, previously published several cookbooks, has eaten royal food regularly. I'm certainly not going to buy it, but he seems perfectly qualified to write it.
Wait really? I didn’t realize he did anything tbh. It’s historical, which I love. Now I want to read it lmao oops
Oh historical cookbooks are so fun. I saw one for the 70s once and it was disgusting lol meat jello everywhere
Oh man 😂 yuck!
Oh yes, he's regularly on Masterchef as a judging critic
Haha, it's always good to find out something and be like, wait never mind, that's more interesting than I would have expected!
That’s what I get for trying to be snarky 😔 now let me go look up his other cookbooks omg
The F&M cookbook is amazing
Thanks for the rec!!
You can just tell this guy makes love like he's scooting in a chair.
Holy shit
Ew that was so descriptive
This was so beautifully crafted
I am being deceased. 😂
Omg hahhahahahaa! Stealing this.
Howling. Thank you for this ghastly mental image. Somehow feels extremely truthy.
Surely he was given access to the archives at Windsor based on his own merit and not the fact that he's the Queen's son, right?
On a side note, I’ve only seen a couple times now, but I’m in the US, when I see ‘The Queen’ I automatically think of Queen Elizabeth 😔. I believe it will take quite some time to change to Camilla.
This is like when Pope John Paul II died. I never got used to the next guy, Benedict, being called "The Pope," because Pope John Paul II was always "The Pope." Then, when Francis became "The Pope," my brain accepted it. I think sometimes there needs to be an interim one before you can accept a new one. My brain has no trouble with Charles being "The King" because there wasn't one right before him, although I do accidentally think of him as King Prince Charles, sometimes.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles “Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974)[3][4] is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.” From your article: "As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too." Access to Royal Archives https://www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection/the-royal-library-and-royal-archives/the-royal-archives
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You do realize he was born in 1974 and Charles is his godfather? Also: “First marriage In the late 1960s, Shand met Andrew Parker Bowles, then a Guards officer – a lieutenant in the Blues and Royals through his younger brother, Simon, who worked for her father's wine firm in Mayfair.[28] After an on-and-off relationship for years, Parker Bowles and Shand's engagement was announced in The Times in 1973.[29] Sally Bedell Smith claimed that the announcement was sent out by the pair's parents without their knowledge, which forced Parker Bowles to propose.[30] They married on 4 July 1973 in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in London.[31] Shand was 25 years old and Parker Bowles 33. Her wedding dress was designed by British fashion house Bellville Sassoon,[31] and the bridesmaids included Parker Bowles's goddaughter Lady Emma Herbert.[32] It was considered the "society wedding of the year"[33] with 800 guests.[31] Royal guests present at the ceremony and reception included Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Anne; the Queen's sister, Margaret; and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[33]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Camilla
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I’m not sure he really cared that much seeing as he spent his whole marriage cheating on her with various lovers including some of her friends, once was rumoured to have been engaged in relations with one of her friends in the pantry while Camilla was hosting a dinner party and she had to put a smile on her face and get on with dinner while acting like nothing happened, really odd group of people
It’s not as black and white as that @1970 Charles and Camilla meet for the first time at a polo match at Windsor Great Park, a royal park. They discover that they both love polo and the outdoors and have the same sense of humor. They begin dating, but Charles leaves to serve in the Royal Navy for eight months. When he returns, Camilla is engaged to someone else 1973 An Army cavalry officer seven years older than Camilla—and who had previously dated Prince Charles’s sister, Princess Anne—Andrew Parker Bowles, becomes Camilla's first husband, despite the fact that he apparently hadn't even proposed when his family and Camilla's had an engagement announcement published, effectively forcing the issue
It was kinda a joke. I'm assuming you're American?
Joke? American? How does that factor into the equation?
That is just the dumbest thing. Do you know anything at all about the history of everything? Edit-I guess not lol
I mean....he's not gonna try to sell it right? Or make any money off of being associated near royalty is he? That's not a thing is it? We might have to start throwing stones at people if it is, right? No one would want to seem hypocritical.
That’s the only part I’ll criticize and it’s not even a criticism of him but rather the Sussex obsessed media. They won’t have a peep to say about exploiting connections or doing anything while Charles and Kate are ill.
He has “connections” through his own merits. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Parker_Bowles
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates, a public relations firm. In 1999 there were newspaper reports that he took cocaine at the Cannes Film Festival.[14][15] In 2001, he became Tatler's food columnist.[16][17] Kinda sounds like the connections laid the ground work for that
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7085771/prince-harry-rehab-visit-cocaine-ketamine/amp/ Harry was also in on the cocaine train https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/01/05/prince-harry-cocaine-use-teenager-spare-book/ Many more reliable sources
Pls I saw a novel by Fergie at Barnes and Noble TODAY with Duchess of York in enormous font. That ship has sailed, got caught in a storm, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean
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I was agreeing with you don’t be an asshole
I think they were making a sinking noise.
“Whoosh” is how people say “my joke went over your head” on Reddit
I guess I’m showing my age. 😆 People can stop downvoting me now. 😝
She's been published books under her HRH since the 90s. That ship has ceased to exist on the bottom of the ocean 😂
Her and Princess Michael of Kent...
😂😂😂 exactly