Fit for aKing

Author Tom opens up about our monarch as he reilects on a culinary passion projec

- ROSALIND POWELL

Tom Parker Bowles has been a food writer and restaurant critic for 24 years. He is also the son of the Queen.

And he has, until now, studiously avoided talking about the Royal Family, let alone writing about them. But in his latest book, he reveals, in detail, their eating habits and gastronomic preferences.

“I knew that I was putting my head in the jaws of a lion, but if I can’t do it now, after a quarter of a century of writing about food, when can I do it?” he says.