Writing in The Sun, he recalled the royal saying: “‘Hello, Piers, how’s my rhino?’ asked Britain’s next queen, Camilla [Parker-Bowles], the last time we met a few weeks ago. I hope you’re still taking good care of it?'”
Piers made a candid admission as he revealed the painting is now hanging elsewhere.
He continued: “‘I am, Ma’am,’ I chuckled. ‘It’s still hanging proudly on my loo wall!’
“The Duchess of Cornwall is a keen amateur painter but has only ever sold one of her pictures, a watercolour of a large rhinoceros in the African bush which I bought at a charity auction in 2002 when I was editor of the Daily Mirror and stuck up in my office.”