King Charles + Queen Camilla
Shared hobbies regularly trigger competition
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They make a harmonious couple, but when it comes to one thing they become bitter competitors: King Charles and his wife Camilla share a hobby that seems to regularly put family peace to the test.
He loves to spill his mother’s secrets: Tom Parker Bowles, 49, has just published his cookbook “Cooking and the Crown.” It’s not just in his current promotional appearances that he reveals one or two private details about the woman who gave birth to him and now represents the crown at the top. His culinary work also contains some funny, in one case literally spicy, anecdotes about Queen Camilla, 77. One of them has to do with a bizarre competition between the royal and her husband King Charles, 75.
King Charles and Queen Camilla are competing
Thanks to Tom, royal fans now know how the royal couple spends their limited free time in autumn: Charles and Camilla are passionate mushroom pickers. What’s more: they apparently regularly get into “real competition” during their raids, reveals the author who is close to them. Wild mushrooms are even “a kind of obsession” for both the monarch and his mother. And collecting was obviously a form of meditation, especially for Charles.
It is now known that the king is said to have gone into the forest on the anniversary of the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, †96, in September 2022 to pursue his hobby. After leaving the Queen’s deathbed at Balmoral Castle, he is said to have traveled to nearby Birkhall to find peace and solace in the silence of nature. When he returned from his little tour, he received news of the death of his loved one.
Collecting mushrooms as meditation
Charles and Camilla have enjoyed mushroom picking for decades, the “Express” knows. In August 2011, the royal reportedly walked for miles along Loch Muick in Scotland. The other family members enjoyed grouse hunting. The heir to the throne at the time was looking for chanterelles and was apparently so absorbed that he didn’t even notice a group of hikers.
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Camilla is known to have gone mushroom hunting in 2007 when Charles was preparing for a service in memory of Princess Diana, †36. She was in Balmoral at the time and was seen on her trip with a companion.
Sources used: Tom Parker Bowles “Cooking and the Crown: Royal recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III”, express.co.uk