Queen Camilla's son defends his mother against Prince Harry's …

In a rare interview, Tom Parker Bowles has opened up about his mother, Queen Camilla. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Tom Parker Bowles insists his mother, Queen Camilla, isn't power hungry and that she'd didn't have any agenda when she married King Charles.  Speaking while appearing on The News Agents podcast, Tom took the opportunity to respond to the criticisms that Prince Harry levelled against her in his memoir Spare.

In his book the prince refers to his stepmother as "dangerous", "a villain", and someone who "played the long game" so that she could get her hands on the crown. But Tom insists this is all a load of nonsense. "I don't care what anyone says - this wasn't any sort of endgame," Tom says. "She married the person she loved, and this is what happened."

Tongues are still wagging about Harry's book, which was released at the beginning of the year. READ MORE | From penis frostbite to killing Taliban fighters: 10 jaw-dropping revelations from Prince Harry's memoir, Spare In one chapter Harry admits that he thought everything Camilla did was a PR stunt.

"I have complex feelings about gaining a stepparent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar," he writes. He also share that he and his brother, Prince William, feared that Camilla would become a "wicked stepmother" and that they begged their father not to marry her. "He didn't answer.

But she answered. Straight away. Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game," Harry adds.

"A campaign aimed at marriage, and eventually the crown, with Pa's blessing we presumed." Although there's been no response from Camilla to the claims in the the book, her confidante and friend, Lady Lansdowne, has had something to say. "Of course, it bothers her; of course, it hurts.

But she doesn't let it get to her," she told Britain's Sunday Times. "Her philosophy is always, 'Don't make a thing of it and it will settle down.'"

Camilla's children, Tom and Laura Lopes, have lived a life away from the public eye. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Camilla is mother to Tom (48) and Laura Lopes (45), who are her children from her first marriage to British military officer Andrew Parker Bowles.

She and Andrew were married from 1973 until 1995. Camilla wed Charles 10 years later. In his podcast interview, Tom hesitated briefly before referring to his mother as the queen but says that it will be a smooth transition.

"It's not weird to think of my mother as the queen. She's still our mother. I say our but not the royal 'we'.

I am speaking for my sister and me. She's our mother," he said. READ MORE | Queen Camilla delights kids with her impressive sketch of The Gruffalo

Tom, who works as a food writer, also wants to set the record straight that he's not expecting any royal title once his mother becomes queen. "You're not going to find us with great estates and being called the duke of whatever. That would be appalling," he says.

"I become nothing. There would be a revolution if they start handing them out to people like me. No, why would I expect one?"

Throughout the years of Camilla's life as part of the royal family, her children have kept to themselves and lived a life away from the public eye. When asked if his mother has expressed any nerves regarding the coronation, Tom says she's never complained. "I think anyone would be anxious on an occasion of this sort of importance.

"And yes, I think I'd be terrified if I had to sort of walk out wearing ancient robes. She's 75 but you know, it's tough to do it. But she's never complained.

You just do it. Get on with it."

Tom will be present to support his mother on coronation day. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Tom, who will be attending the coronation with his sister, says he doesn't feel anxious about it.

"We're just guests. We just get there early and smile. But we'll be worried about our mother, and obviously, our stepfather being okay."

Tom's son, Freddy, will have a role on coronation day as a page of honour to the king and queen. Although it will be a very big day, Tom says he doesn't think Freddy realises the magnitude of it all. "He's a 13-year-old boy who loves football, a Spurs supporter.

So, his worries are about the Spurs manager and losing when we're up and that sort of stuff."

SOURCES: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, ETONLINE.COM, BBC.COM, YOUTUBE.COM