“She has that reputation of drinking gin and smoking,” Tom, 49, said during an interview with the U.K.’s The Times published Saturday, September 28, in which he was promoting his new cookbook, Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III. “Never drunk a glass of gin in her life. Doesn’t smoke.”

His mother, he said, is someone who “hardly drinks” and “doesn’t smoke” — and called some depictions of her “totally inaccurate”

The son of Queen Camilla responds to rumors regarding her supposed drinking and smoking. Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III is a new book written by food critic Tom Parker Bowles,

Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, is shutting down "inaccurate" claims about his royal mother's drinking habits in his new book, Cooking and the Crown. "If anyone ever meets my mother, they

Bowles, has read a lot about his mother over the years. In an interview with The Times, he says he always knew the public would eventually come around to his mother after her rocky relationship with the tabloids in the years after her affair with King Charles became public.

In shows like British sitcom The Windsors or historical drama The Crown, Queen Consort Camilla is often shown with a lit cigarette between her fingers or a glass of liquor in her hand. Such portrayals have inaccurately construed her as a heavy drinker and smoker.

Queen Camilla's son has spoken out about his mother's "reputation for heavily drinking and smoking". Tom Parker Bowles, the son of the Queen and her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, has published a new book titled Cooking and the Crown.

Food critic Tom Parker Bowles, the son of Queen Camilla, has written a new book called Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III. While speaking to The Times, Parker Bowles discussed his mother's favorite foods,