Tom Parker Bowles

The retired sports journalist, 85, talks about the horrors of Friday muck mince, tucking in to chocolate cake at test matches and the joy of ripe brie

This new offering from a hip London dining group spices up Tom's life: a true Indian stunner

Poulet Reine Elizabeth was created in 1953 by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume and served at the late Queen's Coronation lunch.

This is a sweet, bitter and vaguely herbal cocktail much appreciated by the late Queen and Queen Mother alike, sipped before lunch.

The regal martini is most definitely stirred, not shaken — just as King Charles likes it. Get the royal recipe from Tom Parker Bowles.

“To eat well in England,” the writer W. Somerset Maugham once joked, “you should have breakfast three times a day.” He may have had a point. Because the aristocratic breakfasts of Victorian and Edwardian times were not so much dainty repasts as full-on gastronomic assaults, gut-busting epics that set one up for a good old-fashioned day's hunting, shooting, and roistering. Or simply getting on with ruling one's realm.

In the unlikely setting of a Margate shopping centre, Tom discovers a revelatory flavour fest

For truly exclusive dining, says Tom, you can't beat the black stuff - but you'd better save up

Despite its unlovely location, Tom adores the fine flavours at a Manchester brasserie with pedigree

The comedian, 64, tells Tom Parker Bowles about her mum's mince, an on-the-road standby and why baked beans are no longer on the menu