Does the Queen’s son have more of a common touch than the rest of the royals?

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, 48, clearly has no royal airs and graces – despite the fact that his mother will be crowned Queen in a few weeks alongside his stepdad and godfather, King Charles. Why would I expect one?” The well-known food critic and writer also told Global’s The News Agents podcast that it’s not weird to think of his mother as Queen, stating with a matter-of-fact ordinariness, “She’s still our mother,” while also bravely defending her. “I don’t care what anyone says, this wasn’t any sort of endgame” to get the crown, he said – after Prince Harry, writing in his memoir Spare, called the new Queen “dangerous” and a “villain” who had leaked stories to the press for her own gain. I was just as impressed when he stood up for the right of anti-monarchist campaigners to protest at the coronation, saying it’s a “free country” – something I can’t begin to imagine other minor royals would dream of even thinking.