Tom Parker Bowles on his mum Camilla’s cooking and the King

Tom Parker Bowles’ great friend, the Times food critic Giles Coren, once said to me, “I love him, but I wouldn’t want to explain him to a Corbynite.”“I’m more of a leftie than he is,” Parker Bowles objects. He and I are in a private dining room of the Soho restaurant Quo Vadis, one of Parker Bowles’ favourites. We’ve met to discuss his new book, Cooking & the Crown. I’d been angling to do it over a boozy lunch to enable scurrilous gossip; he’d asked for a formal interview followed by an off-the-record boozy lunch. I’d pretended I couldn’t make it any earlier than boozy lunchtime — it’s my birthday, I’d been to see Taylor Swift the night before et cetera — but he insists.Were you worried you’d be too indiscreet over a scurrilous boozy lunch, I ask him.“Yes,” he says. “Were you lying about not being able to get here earlier?”Yes, I say (self-evidently).Back to politics. Is Parker Bowles — 49-year-old son of Queen Camilla, godson and…