Queen Camilla Details Exactly What Her Last Meal on Earth Would Be

Queen Camilla at an engagement — (Image credit: Getty Images)

If you could choose your last meal, what would it be? If you’re Queen Camilla—who has sampled dishes from across the globe and has access to the finest dining the world offers—the decision might be difficult. Opening up to her son Tom Parker-Bowles (who is a food critic), if she had to choose a meal for her final day on earth, she’d actually pick her own vegetables, The Sun reports.

“My last supper would probably involve my own asparagus, with lots of butter,” she told her son for a piece in You. (Camilla is an avid gardener, if you didn’t know.) “Angela Hartnett’s risotto. I love her cooking. Dover sole meuniére, with ratte potatoes and fresh broad beans and peas from the garden.”

Per The Sun, both Camilla and her husband, King Charles, like to garden; they have been known to grow kale, purple sprouting broccoli, carrots, courgettes, and lots of greens in the gardens of their many homes. The Sun also reports that, in addition to food fresh from the garden, Camilla also likes cheese, sweet treats, and fish and chips.

For her last dessert, Camilla said she would go for “some bitter chocolate ice cream, plus strawberries and raspberries and lots of clotted cream,” she said. “Along with a really good glass of red claret.” Putting her trademarked sense of humor on display, she added “and, seeing it’s my last supper, probably two.”

On any given day, The Sun reports that Camilla “opts for a relatively plain diet that she often cooks for herself when at home, such as fish with butter and herbs,” the outlet reports. And despite “hating” avocados at first, she now eats them “most days.”

Maybe some of these dishes will be on the menu at King Charles’ big seventy-fifth birthday party—the queen is said to have organized a private dinner to celebrate at Charles’ country home, Highgrove. And, in typical royal fashion, they’re planning ahead—his birthday isn’t until mid-November.

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Rachel Burchfield is a writer, editor, and podcaster whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family and other royal families around the world. She serves as Marie Claire’s Senior Celebrity and Royals Editor and has also contributed to publications like Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, People, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and W, among others. Before taking on her current role with Marie Claire, Rachel served as its Weekend Editor and later Royals Editor. She is the cohost of Podcast Royal, a show that was named a top five royal podcast by The New York Times. A voracious reader and lover of books, Rachel also hosts I’d Rather Be Reading, which spotlights the best current nonfiction books hitting the market and interviews the authors of them. Rachel frequently appears as a media commentator, and she or her work has appeared on outlets like NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, and more.