Perhaps no one is better suited to write a royal cookbook than Queen Camilla's food critic son, Tom Parker Bowles—and in Cooking & The Crown, the acclaimed writer revealed some of the fascinating (and peculiar) eating habits of monarchs through the years.
One such story relates to breakfast, with Parker Bowles diving into the elaborate history of "gut-busting" royal mornings that, at one point, stretched out to five courses long. The author described "the aristocratic breakfasts of Victorian and Edwardian times" as affairs that "were not so much dainty repasts as full-on gastronomic assualts."
