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Why Queen Camilla Still Uses a Nokia Brick Phone

Her son said in a recent interview that it means he can’t reach her on What’s App but he can usually turn on the TV to find out where she is.

Given that she once suffered the embarrassment of seeing an intimate phone call with the then-Prince Charles in which he fantasized about being her tampon plastered all over global media, it is perhaps unsurprising that Queen Camilla now takes her telephonic security very seriously indeed. Now her son, the food writer and bon viveur Tom Parker Bowles, has revealed that his mother still uses an old fashioned Nokia brick phone for security reasons. In comments made to Woman & Home magazine and subsequently reported in the Daily Telegraph, Parker Bowles said: “My mum still uses an old-fashioned Nokia telephone, so (she) can’t (use Whats App). I think it’s for security.” Parker Bowles added that if he can’t reach his mother on the phone he checks the news to see what she is up to, saying: “I ring my mother, she doesn’t answer, I look on the television and think, ‘Ah! She’s in Jersey’.”