One presumes the late Queen’s permission was sought as to whether it was okay for Tom Parker Bowles to write a recipe book themed around the history of royal food. Though the man himself—author, cook, son, father, brother, stepbrother, godson, general family man, now at the heart of the family—can’t entirely recall how the process worked, but, yes, he definitely did ask, he says with a near-imperceptible eye roll.