Royalty & Fashion Royalty Came Out To Celebrate The Launch Of Tom Parker Bowles’s Cooking & The Crown

How better to celebrate Tom Parker Bowles’s latest cookbook Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III than with a party to toast all those who brought it to life? Of course, the guest of honour was Tom’s mother, the Queen, who spoke animatedly with British Vogue’s head of editorial content Chioma Nnadi as host Ewan Venters welcomed guests to The Audley in Mayfair. Other guests included Freddie Windsor, Jemima Khan, Geordie Greig, Maureen Lipman and Charlotte Tilbury.

Tom’s father, brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (with a dazzling dahlia buttonhole from his Gloucestershire garden) and sister Laura Lopes, stood alongside the Queen as Tom gave a typically charming speech, opening with a toast “to the King and Queen, without whom this wouldn’t have been possible”, and quipping that his previous books had “never threatened Harry Potter” in the charts. Guests ate Scotch eggs and Coronation chicken sandwiches, poring over recipes for salmon fishcakes and the King’s Wet Martini while waiting for Tom to sign their copy of the book. Step inside the night, below.