Tom Parker Bowles was in pugnacious mood at the Santa Rita Cigar Smoker of The Year Dinner and Awards in Canary Wharf, east London.
‘We are here at Boisdale celebrating not just the joys of cigars and wine, but the basic fundamental pleasure – of being together and making merry in the most civilised and open-minded surroundings,’ he told guests who included Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, hard-man actor Ray Winstone and journalist Piers Morgan. ‘That’s surely something to be happy about.’
Queen Camilla’s son, who is a food writer and Mail on Sunday columnist, added: ‘As for the “me, me, me” moaners, the whiners, the bleaters, and the empty virtue-signallers and the eternally bloody offended – f*** off!’ Boisdale owner Ranald MacDonald will, no doubt, have concurred.
He’s been described as ‘London’s most politically incorrect restaurateur’.