King Charles' strict mealtime ban and unusual competition with Queen Camilla

Queen Camilla's son, the nutrient professional Tom Parker Bowles, has lifted the lid connected what mealtimes are similar with his parent and her hubby King Charles and revealed the regularisation that his stepfather insists beryllium followed

Queen Camilla's lad has revealed however the King is simply a recycling champion who "appalls waste".

Food professional and writer Tom Parker Bowles said his stepfather Charles bans thing to beryllium thrown distant aft mealtimes, insisting leftovers tin beryllium utilized for different dishes with each packaging recycled. Tom, 49, said: "There is nary waste, everything is recycled, everything is utilized from the table. If thing is leftover from the dinner, that volition beryllium made into thing other oregon look the adjacent day. Nothing's allowed to beryllium thrown out."

The King has agelong been a champion of sustainability - The Coronation Food Project coordinated by his charitable money launched past year, aiming to trim nutrient discarded and enactment radical surviving successful "food insecurity". Parker Bowles added: "It's not the King conscionable paying articulator service, helium practices what helium preaches."

As the King's stepson and godson, helium says nutrient sustainability is simply a taxable helium "can subordinate to" the monarch on. "He truly is simply a nutrient hero. To speech to him astir the unusual varieties of plums oregon pears oregon thing other is endlessly fascinating", helium added.

Buckingham Palace announced successful February that Charles was diagnosed with an undisclosed signifier of cancer, but Parker Bowles confirmed his "doctor says the attraction is going well" and shared however his parent Camilla was coping, saying: "She's tough, my mother".

His latest cookbook, Cooking and the Crown, details the past of nutrient wrong the royal family - from the reign of Queen Victoria opening successful 1837 and Edward VII astatine the crook of the century, to Charles and Camilla.

"They tin surely devour that family!" helium said - who regularly appears arsenic a professional connected BBC One's MasterChef.

Lunch and dinner, successful Queen Victoria's time, would beryllium 10 to 12 courses, helium says. "They didn't person to devour it each but determination was conscionable a immense magnitude of nutrient and they did devour a batch much than we bash now." The writer besides reveals Charles and Camilla are some "deeply competitive" erstwhile it comes to foraging for mushrooms during stays astatine Balmoral.

He said: "They're some precise keen mycologists, and some cognize their mushrooms very, precise well. This clip of year, depending connected rain, there's ceps and chanterelles... I spell with my parent and there's a batch of fantastic mushrooming successful Scotland. It's a shared pleasure." Parker Bowles says the King and Queen are acold little wasteful, choosing to devour smaller meals than erstwhile generations of royals.

During the colder months, Camilla eats a vessel of porridge each day, a look for which you'll find successful the book, made with Scottish porridge oats, full-fat milk, a pinch of brackish and chromatic - her ain honey, that is, from hives astatine the location she owns successful Wiltshire. In summer, it's yoghurt.

According to Parker Bowles, her lunches are airy too; often the chickenhearted broth - different look elaborate successful the publication - oregon smoked salmon, portion Charles famously doesn't devour luncheon astatine all, but eats dried effect and chromatic for breakfast, and enjoys mutton precise much.

Extracted from Cooking And The Crown by Tom Parker Bowles, published successful hardback by Aster, priced £30. Available September 26.