Last week it was announced the Camilla would be queen consort, after Her Majesty the Queen stressed it was her “sincere wish” during her 70th accession day message. The Duchess of Cornwall was once vilified and perceived as a threat to the stability of the monarchy, but her reputation has since completely turned around.
Of those who support her mission to ensure the institution’s future runs smoothly is Piers Morgan, who in light of the announcement recalled attending a meal with the Duchess and other famous people, where he took aim at radio presenter Chris Evans.
“Several years ago, I was invited to a star-studded Christmas lunch at Fortnum and Mason,” he penned in his latest column for The Sun.
“I sat opposite an immaculately regal-attired Camilla, and to her left sat Chris Evans, who unlike the rest of the suited-and-booted gathering was in casual clothes and draped in a massive quantity of colourful festive tinsel that he wore throughout the meal and which, in typically British manner, nobody mentioned.
“‘Your Royal Highness,’ I eventually asked, ‘I have to address the elephant in the room – is this the first time you’ve ever been sat next to someone dressed as a gigantic purple Christmas tree and are you as disconcerted by it as I am?'”
He revealed all eyes, including Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Fry, Paul O’Grady and Dame Joanna Lumley turned to Camilla as Chris sat there with his famous smirk plastered across his face.
But it turned out, she wasn’t phased by it at all.
Piers continued to detail he reaction: “‘Good Lord no!’ she guffawed, “This is very tame.’
“Her amused reaction – I can think of a few snobbish royals who’d have got very snotty about such sartorial effrontery – said everything you need to know about the woman just formally endorsed by the Queen as the next person to hold that historic title when Prince Charles becomes King.”
He continued to brand her “smart, warm, incredibly down-to-earth, and gregarious person who’s not only terrific company but can make you laugh out loud with her dry dead-pan wit”.
And, she even admitted that she “missed” him on breakfast television after he stepped down from Good Morning Britain back in March last year, following his comments on Meghan Markle.
“At our last lunch meeting in December, Camilla said she’d been ‘thoroughly enjoying’ my book Wake Up about the insane woke world we now endure,” Piers penned proudly.
“I’d sent her a copy, knowing she finds it all as absurd as I do, and demanded to know when I’d be back on television.