Tom Parker Bowles
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Parker Bowles at the 2014 Web Summit
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Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles 18 December 1974 Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Food writer and critic |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Buys (m. 2005) |
| Children | 2 |
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Andrew Parker Bowles Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
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Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles (/boʊlz/; born 18 December 1974) is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of five cookbooks and in 2010 won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.
Parker Bowles is the son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Andrew Parker Bowles. His stepfather and godfather is Charles, Prince of Wales. He has one younger sister, Laura Lopes.
Tom Parker Bowles grew up at Bolehyde Manor in Allington, Wiltshire, and later Middlewick House in Corsham, Wiltshire. He and his sister Laura were raised as Roman Catholics. Both their father and their paternal grandmother, the late Dame Ann Parker Bowles, were Catholic. Like his father, he is in the line of succession to the Earldom of Macclesfield.
Parker Bowles was educated at Summer Fields prep school in Oxford. In the 1980s, he and his sister attended Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham. He later attended Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Piers Gaveston Society. Parker Bowles states that immediately after leaving school, he fell in love with food writing and cites his mother's cooking skills and recipes inspired him to become a food writer.
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