Queen Camilla smiles during a visit to Maggie’s Oxford in 2017.Photo:Chris Jackson/Getty
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Queen Camilla’s five grandchildren call her something sweet!
In the wide-ranging piece published Saturday, Sara spoke about what it was like to get her kids ready forKing CharlesandQueen Camilla’s May 6 coronation day. The fashion editor andWardrobe Revivalsentrepreneur shares daughter Lola, 16, and son Freddy, 13, with her ex-husband. The former couple wed in 2005 and divorced in 2018 after 13 years of marriage.
While Freddy’s outfit was predetermined as a Page of Honor (a royal role he stepped into alongside his first cousins Gus and Louis Lopes, the twin sons of Camilla’s daughterLaura Lopes, and oppositePrince George), Sara said that Lola’s look took a little more planning.
Laura Lopes, Harry Lopes, Tom Parker Bowles, Eliza Lopes and Lola Bowles on coronation day.
“Everyone thinks it’s chance that they all come out in the right colors, but it’s very carefully dictated behind the scenes,” she said of attending the crowning ceremony. “We chose her a lovely Roland Mouret dress in the end.”
Sara also attended the crowning ceremony at Westminster Abbey and kept a close watch when Freddyappeared on the balconyof Buckingham Palace with the newly crowned King and Queen alongside other members of the royal family.
Queen Camilla talks to her grandson Freddy Parker Bowles on the Buckingham Palace balcony on coronation day.LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty
LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty
“He wanted to go in the gold carriage, but he didn’t get to. Then his face on the balcony — I could see he was just like, ‘Woah!’ " she toldThe Timesof her son’s iconic reaction to what he saw from the terrace. “My favorite part of the whole day was that he did a little wave that he wasn’t supposed to.”
Tom Parker Bowles and Sara Parker Bowles at the launch of his book “E Is For Eating” in 2004.Gareth Cattermole/ Getty
Gareth Cattermole/ Getty
Queen Camilla welcomed her two children during her marriage toAndrew Parker Bowles. Sara said that Tom, 48, was nervous his mother would befaced with hatewhenQueen Elizabethdied in September 2022 like she was amid Charles’ split and divorce fromPrincess Dianain the 1990s, but the public welcomed her instead.
“Tom was worried it would happen all over again when the Queen died, but it has been the opposite,” she explained.
Sharing more about her take on coronation day, theVogueandHarper’s Bazaaralum said her former mother-in-law was “really nervous” about the historic crowning.
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“Camilla was really, really nervous. She wanted the people that she loved around her,” Sara said of the pressure — and what it meant to have her family there. “[The King] wasn’t nervous at all. But Camilla didn’t ask for any of this.”
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“She’s the human face of the royal family because she’s not part of it. You need those outsiders really,” she added of Camilla’s vital role in the royal fold.
The Queenturned 76on Monday, marking her first birthday since the start of King Charles' reign and the May crowning. The Queen spent her birthday privately and stepped out with Charles for a few engagements this week, from a Shakespeare reception at Windsor Castle on Tuesday to a visit to Brecon, Wales on Thursday.
The couple is expected to soon head to Scotland for their annual summer stay at Balmoral Castle, the royal family’s beloved retreat in the Scottish highlands.
source: people.com
