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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Queen Camilla's Son Reveals How Being in Her Family Was "Incredibly Dangerous" at Times

Queen Camilla wearing a white polka-dot dress standing next to her son Tom Parker Bowles and smiling.

While Queen Camilla's impressive charity work and steadfast support for King Charles is viewed in a positive light today, her reputation in the '90s was...well, not great. With the public heavily siding with Princess Diana during Charles and Diana's very public divorce, Camilla was largely painted as a villain. That being said, growing up as one of Camilla's children wasn't always easy, as her son Tom Parker Bowles revealed in a recent interview with Hello!

While he describes having a "lovely happy English upbringing" with his mom, father Andrew Parker Bowles (his parents divorced in 1995) and sister Laura Lopes, the media intrusion surrounding Camilla's relationship with King Charles made life difficult and even "dangerous" at times.

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