Queen Camilla Shut Down Rumors About Her Smoking Addiction

The royal quit decades ago.

After longtime rumors—and TV shows and movies, like The Windsors and The Crown—depicted Queen Camilla as big smoker and a heavy drinker, the royal is setting the record straight once and for all.

Camilla, who has taken off some time amid a chest infection, returned to royal duties this week by joining King Charles at his reception for the Film and TV Charity at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. While speaking with Paddington in Peru actress Emily Mortimer, Camilla revealed that she kicked the nasty habit of smoking cigarettes years ago.

"Penny sends her love," Mortimer said, per The Mirror, referring to her mother Penelope Mortimer, whom Camilla knows. The queen then asked how her mother was doing to which Emily responded, "Oh, she's still smoking as much as ever."

When Camilla questioned if Penny was "still" smoking, Emily asked the queen, "Oh have you quit?" Queen Camilla then revealed that she hasn't indulged in a cigarette in decades. "Oh yes, I quit 20 years ago," she said.

"Well done," the actress commended the queen.

This isn't the first time that rumors about the queen's vices have been dispelled. Earlier this year, Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, said that the gossip about Camilla is "totally inaccurate."

"Oh, you know she has that reputation of drinking gin and smoking?" he told The Times in an interview promoting his book Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III. "Never drunk a glass of gin in her life. Doesn’t smoke."

In fact, while she may enjoy the occasional cocktail, the queen doesn't drink much at all.

"My mother hardly drinks," Tom added. "Never seen her so much as tipsy."