Royal photographer stirs controversy after revealing that Camilla is NICER than Princess Diana was – “Diana used to have her moods…”
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Princess Diana is a well-loved royal icon around the world for her sincerity, beauty, and compassion for others. To this day, she is still unarguably a favourite among the royals as numerous documentaries about her life along with television shows pop up to reminisce her story – but not even Princess Diana can please everyone.
A royal photographer, Arthur Edwards, came forward about his experience working with the Princess of Wales in comparison to the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla.
“Diana has been dead for 25 years, so people's memories are slipping, and they've embraced Camilla,” he said. “You know what? Camilla is nicer than Diana. Easier to get on with,”
“Diana used to have her moods, and when she died, she wasn't talking to her mother or Sarah Ferguson because of silly rows. You don't get that with the Duchess.”
“Camilla is nicer than Diana” said the photographer. Image Credit: Good Housekeeping
This followed after Camilla recently disclosed in an interview with her son Tom Parker Bowles in You magazine, that her cooking skills are limited and she often holds friendly competitions with her husband, Prince Charles, over the fruit and vegetables that they grow.
Detailing her culinary style as “nothing too mucked about or fussy and fiddly”, the Duchess shared that she picked up most of her knowledge about cooking by simply watching her mother, Rosalind Shand, who she claimed made food the 'heart' of her family’s life.
“One of my earliest memories is podding those peas and beans with my mother, an accomplished cook.” she added. “I learned from my mother. I've never followed a recipe in my life.”
“On Friday nights, we were allowed to choose our dinner,” she recalled. “I always went for frozen chicken pie, much to my mother's despair.”
During the Swinging Sixties, Camilla regularly dropped by London's best restaurants, such as Alexander's on the King's Road, saying: “I remember how excited I was when I first ate some prawns and avocado at Alexander's... The combination seemed impossibly exotic.”
The Duchess specialises in simple, healthy food. Image Credit: Pinterest
Her family spent summers on the island of Ischia, near Naples, where the Duchess claimed she had 'instilled a lifelong passion for Italian food'. In spite of that, she takes little credit for the refined palate of her restaurant critic son, describing herself as “never the most adventurous of cooks”.
Camilla specialised in simple, healthy food when her children were growing up in Wiltshire.
“My cooking is about good ingredients. Nothing too mucked about, or fussy or fiddly. Lots of tarragon chicken, scrambled eggs, bacon, and chicken casserole. There were always roasts on Sunday.”
“The children ate a lot of cheese on toast. We had a kitchen garden... so we ate seasonally before it became en vogue. That's just what you did in the country back then.”
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