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Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, isn’t vying for a royal title any time soon.
The Queen’s son, 51, joked about why he doesn’t want to be a prince during a recent appearance on the Good Food podcast with Samuel Goldsmith.
Tom, a food writer and the restaurant critic for The Mail on Sunday, bantered with Goldsmith about why he isn’t interested in acquiring a royal title on the Oct. 21 episode of the show.
“If my mum became Queen, I’d be like, ‘I want to be a prince,’ ” the host said.
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“I’d tell you that would be the quickest way to revolution,” Tom responded. “I think we’re fairly balanced and sober and sensible country on the whole, but if I suddenly became prince, I think Buckingham Palace gates would be stormed. It would be appalling. Really, no… I think that would put back the long and glorious cause of the monarchy in Britain by many years, no.”
“You might get your own Netflix show, you know, if you do it!” Goldsmith quipped, which made Tom laugh.
“I wouldn’t mind that!” he joked. “But no, I think that would be… stick it, keep to my original.”
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Tom is Queen Camilla’s son with her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, and the former couple also share daughter Laura Lopes, 47.
Tom and Laura became step-siblings to two princes, Prince William and Prince Harry, when the future King Charles and Queen Camilla wed in 2005, but the Queen’s kids lead their lives outside of the royal spotlight.
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In two rare royal appearances, Tom, Laura and their respective families publicly attended Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral in September 2022 and the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla in May 2023.
More informally, the Queen often attends social events like horse races or Tom’s book parties with her children.
Exclusively speaking to PEOPLE in 2024 around the publication of his book, Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III, Tom described the King and Queen as exceptional grandparents to his kids, Lola, 18, and Freddy, 15, whom he shares with his ex-wife, Sara Buys.
“They adore her. They adore the King, too. He has been a wonderful step-grandfather,” he said then.
