As noted by Vanity Fair, Camilla Parker Bowles gave birth to her first child, Thomas, in 1974. Four years later, Camilla gave birth to her second child, Laura. By all accounts, Camilla was a good mother. Andrew's third cousin John Bowes-Lyon told the outlet that Camilla was "a wonderful mother" who was often left to care for her children on her own as Andrew was in the military and frequently gone from home.
Camilla shared, as published by the Daily Mail's You magazine, that she wanted to raise her children the way she had been raised, with "a certain amount of freedom." She described her kids as "very rooted," although perhaps not quite as respectful of her and Andrew as she was of her own mother and father.
Her son, Thomas, told the outlet that Camilla is "an exceptional mother." He added, "She never got cross about bad school reports, getting into trouble and so on. She would come to Eton and take me out to McDonald's."
