Royal visit to Saatchi haunt
SENIOR members of the Royal Family don’t often dine in restaurants, but Prince Charles made an exception this week as he took his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, to Scott’s in Mayfair, in London’s West End.
Camilla, who wore a silk dress and pearl necklace, also invited food writer Tom Parker Bowles, her son by brigadier former husband Andrew, and Tom’s fashion stylist wife, Sara (both pictured in background). Scott’s is the regular haunt of grumpy art collector Charles Saatchi, who was seated in the outdoor terrace when he was memorably pictured with his hand around the throat of his then-wife Nigella Lawson. The heir to the throne wisely opted to be seated indoors.
It’s not known if a close protection officer brought Charles’s favourite silk embroidered cushion, which is always taken with him to the theatre.