Tom Parker Bowles

Tom Parker Bowles
Born 18 December 1974 (1974-12-18) (age 37)
London, England
Other names Thomas Henry Parker Bowles
Occupation Food writer
Spouse Sara Buys (2005–present)
Children Lola Rosalind (b.2007)
Freddy (b.2010)
Parents Andrew Parker Bowles
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Relatives Laura Lopes (sister)

Thomas Henry Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974) is the son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Camilla Parker Bowles) and Andrew Parker Bowles. His stepfather and godfather is Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. His younger sister is Laura Lopes. Tom and his sister Laura were raised Roman Catholic.[1] Both their father and their paternal grandmother, the late Dame Ann Parker Bowles, were Catholic.

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Education and career

Parker Bowles was educated at Summer Fields prep school in Oxford.[2] He then attended Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Piers Gaveston Society[3] From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates public relations firm.[4] He then co-founded Quintessentially, a high end concierge service, with his cousin Ben Elliot, Luca del Bono and film producer Aaron Simpson.

For the past 10 years, he has been a food writer and broadcaster with a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday. He has recently moved from being a Contributing Editor at GQ to being Food Editor at Esquire magazine.

His first book, published in 2004, was E Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed. His next, The Year of Eating Dangerously, was published by Ebury in October 2006. And his third, Full English; A Journey Through the British and Their Food was published in 2009 and won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for best work on British food. His next book, Let's Eat, is a compendium of his favourite recipes, collected from around the world, and written with the amateur cook in mind. It will be published in 2012 by Anova.

He also co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel from 2007 to 2010 and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme for a year.

He is Editor at Large of Pomp magazine and acts as consultant on a number of food related projects, including Heckfield Place, due to open in 2012.

Marriage

On 10 September 2005, he married Sara Buys, a fashion features editor at Harpers & Queen who wore a dress designed by Sarah Burton, in St. Nicholas' Anglican Church in Rotherfield Grey, Oxfordshire. The wedding was attended by Andrew and Rosemary Parker Bowles (his father and stepmother), his mother and Charles, Prince of Wales, and Charles' sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. Ben Elliot (first cousin and business collaborator) was the best man of the groom.

Family

One of his cousins is the severely disabled musical prodigy Derek Paravicini.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Why postponing Royal wedding is right thing to do - News - Scotsman.com". News.scotsman.com. 2005-04-05. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Why-postponing-Royal-wedding-is.2615825.jp. Retrieved 2011-12-28. 
  2. ^ Barber, Lynn (Sunday 1 October 2006). "Eating like a king", The Observer
  3. ^ Mail on Sunday article, 9 July 2000
  4. ^ People reported the name of the PR firm where Parker Bowles was employed from 1997–2000. This was done in Volume 51, Issue 20, dated 31 May 1999. Another source, Royalty Database, translates a Spanish language article in the Clarin website, and reports the name of the PR firm as simply being "DDA." This article was originally published in the same timeframe as the People article and provides, essentially, the same "news" and information.
  5. ^ "Derek Paravicini, the Parker Bowles prodigy" The Times. 28 Feb 2008
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Andrew Parker Bowles (first husband) • Tom Parker Bowles (son) • Laura Lopes (daughter) • Charles, Prince of Wales (second husband) • Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (elder stepson) • Prince Harry of Wales (younger stepson) • Bruce Shand (father) • Rosalind Shand (mother) • Annabel Elliot (sister) • Mark Shand (brother)
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