FOOD writer Tom Parker Bowles

travelled more than 10,000 miles to be at the 70th birthday party for his mother, the Duchess of Cornwall, at Highgrove on Saturday. Tom, who was filming a TV series in Australia, says: ‘There is no way I could have missed it. We are a close family.’ Tom, 42, adds: ‘It feels strange that she is 70, but then, the older you get the less old 70 seems.’