Queen Camilla appeared in high spirits as she mingled with members of the Loose Women panel at a SafeLives reception today.

The 77-year-old patron of SafeLives met with Jane Street-Porter and Denise Welch in Clarence House, London, at an event for domestic abuse survivors, frontline professionals, and supporters to mark the charity’s 21st anniversary.

The royal appeared delighted as she chatted with Janet, 78, and Denise, 66, who yesterday responded to sensational claims that she had ‘gone missing in a hot air balloon’.

Elsewhere during the event, Camilla met with Diana Parkes, founder of the Joanna Simpson Foundation, which aims to transform the care, support, and protection of children affected by domestic abuse and homicide.

The wife of King Charles also greeted other attendees at the event, including Ursula Lidenberg.

To celebrate the charity’s 21st anniversary, which strives to transform the response to domestic abuse, Camilla sliced open a cake SafeLives workers proudly watched on.

Earlier this afternoon, Queen Camilla visited The King’s Gallery at London’s Buckingham Palace to promote her late brother’s elephant conservation charity.

The Queen inspected a giant ‘Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg’ in her first public engagement since the King was hospitalised briefly for the side effects of his cancer treatment last week.

Queen Camilla met Janet Street-Porter (pictured centre) and Denise Welch (pictured left) during a reception in Clarence House to mark SafeLives 21st anniversary this afternoon

Camilla was all smiles as she admired the 2ft sculpture. ‘This is very exciting, a real Humpty Dumpty,’ she said.

Installed outside the King’s Gallery, the piece is one of 123 that make up ‘The Big Egg Hunt’ campaign by Elephant Family, the conservation charity founded by Her Majesty’s adored late brother Mark Shand.

Commissioned by the King and Queen, the egg’s leafy design was created by artist Alice Shirley and inspired by their love of nature and conservation.

‘It’s absolutely beautiful, I loved the idea,’ Camilla told the London-based designer, who collaborates with the French fashion house Hermes and is an alumna of The Royal Drawing School and Byam Shaw School, Central St Martins.

Alice explained that her design, painted in acrylics onto a shell made from recycled plastic, was based on a combination of the Green Man of traditional folklore, whose image also appeared on invitations to the Coronation, and the traditional nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, used here to symbolise the broken state of the natural world.

Two Coldstream Guardsmen, in full uniform, posed alongside the egg to reflect the Humpty Dumpty rhyme ‘All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men’, which is adapted with the line ‘couldn’t put the Green Man together again’ on the egg’s plinth.

Denise, who addressed sensational claims that she had ‘gone missing in a hot air balloon’ on Monday’s Loose Women, appeared in high spirits 

Camilla grinned as she chatted with the Loose Women hosts during the event on Tuesday afternoon

Camilla, patron of SafeLives, cut a cake as (pictured left to right) Maya Balachandran a SafeLives Changemaker, Isabel Boyer, Ellen Miller and Dame Maria Miller, watched

Pictured: Queen Camilla with guests during a reception in Clarence House, London, for survivors, frontline professionals and supporters to mark the charity’s 21st anniversary

The Queen told the artist, who works from her studio in Camden, London, that the King would be ‘very excited’ by her work.

Speaking afterwards, Alice said the monarch had been a ‘huge supporter’ of her work since she studied at the Royal Drawing School in 2009 and owns several of her works, including an ink drawing of a gorilla and a painting of a leopard, which he received for his 70th birthday.

She said of the egg, which took her a month to paint, ‘lt’s the kind of commission you can’t say no to.’ She had continued to work on it until earlier today, repairing some slight chips to the shell with gold leaf.

Their Majesties are joint patrons of Elephant Family, which works with conservation experts on the ground to tackle the challenges facing Asian wildlife and the communities living alongside them.

After the London egg trail, the sculptures will be auctioned off to raise funds for their work.

Other artists and brands who have decorated eggs include Anya Hindmarch, Philip Colbert, Duncan Campbell and Charlotte Rey, LUAP, Fortnum & Mason and Chopard.

Members of the public can ‘collect’ the eggs via The Big Egg Hunt app as they follow the trail, which spans places including Chelsea, Canary Wharf, Covent Garden and Marble Arch, and landmarks including Battersea Power Station, the Barbican, the British Museum and the Royal Albert Hall.

It comes after food critic Tom Parker-Bowles gave a rare insight into life with his mother, Queen Camilla, on a leading food podcast.

Camilla warmly greeted Diana Parkes, who founded the Joanna Simpson Foundation, at the reception

Pictured: Queen Camilla, patron of SafeLives, with Ursula Lindenberg during a reception in Clarence House

Queen Camilla (pictured left) viewed ‘Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg’ by artist Alice Shirley (pictured right) outside The King’s Gallery at London’s Buckingham Palace to promote her late brother’s elephant conservation charity this afternoon

The writer, 49, revealed what he grew up eating around the dinner table and what family life was like with his mother, now Queen Camilla, father Andrew Parker-Bowles and sister Laura Lopes.

Tom, who is the Mail on Sunday’s restaurant critic, revealed that he used to grow up eating hearty roast dinners – but always had a love of fast food.

He also gave several insights into Camilla’s cooking abilities and her go-to takeaway order.

The writer made the revelation during an appearance on the podcast Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware earlier this month.

During the discussion alongside Henry Jeffreys, the Queen’s son opened up about what family life was like in the kitchen and around the dinner table. 

Tom explained that his mother always ensured her children ate well – but added she doesn’t cook much anymore for obvious reasons.

He told the podcast hosts: ‘Not so much anymore – She’s busy, but she was bringing up two children in the ’70s and ’80s, in Wiltshire.

‘It wasn’t that my dad would cook, [Camilla] was a good cook, but she wasn’t a recipe follower.

Camilla, dressed in a black dress and leopard print blouse, commissioned Shirley’s work with King Charles 

Camilla made the visit this afternoon in support of her late brother’s elephant charity, Elephant Family

‘Get a chicken, put a lemon up his a***, you know, put butter all over it, put it in the oven. That’s dinner!’

He continued to say that growing up he didn’t eat out often and his first experience of a restaurant was on a trip to London with his grandmother.

‘Growing up in Wiltshire in the ’70s and ’80s, you did not go out to eat,’ he confessed.

‘I went to London with my granny, who took us to nice Italian restaurants. But in the country – Wimpy in Swindon. ‘

And, although he enjoyed the occasional treat, he admitted that the most memorable dish from his childhood was roast chicken and a baked potato. 

He said: ‘I suppose it would be my mum’s roast chicken.

‘And then she’d never make gravy, but she’d she’d cut off that fatty bit and, you know, the bit that hangs over, and put it on the top, and then she’d pour all the juices over your chicken, and it’d be a baked potato, and that was it.’

He went on to describe how he would often be allowed the odd takeaway and to rent a film, although Camilla was strict about the movies he could and couldn’t watch.

The 77-year-old appeared more than impressed by Shirley’s work, called Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg

Pictured: Two guardsmen with ‘Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg’ which is installed outside The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, London

Tom said: ‘And the other thing was fish and chips. The fish and chip shop was in our local town, so we went to the video shop afterwards.

‘She [Camilla] told them I wasn’t allowed to get eighteens, so I’d get Lethal Weapon, and the Delta Force (..) whatever it was.

‘It was just pre the Video Recordings Act, so they weren’t rated. But she would know all this stuff.

‘And then you get fish and chips and a video, and it’s just like, this is the life…and a coke!

During the podcast, Tom also revealed that his last supper would consist of his mother’s roast chicken or his favourite order from McDonald’s.

He told the hosts he would start his feast with as much caviar as possible before moving on to the main and skipping desert.

‘As a main course, I should say roast chicken or a Big Mac. The cheeseburger is about as perfect a creation as you could ever have anywhere on Earth.

‘I love it. I hate Burger King. I have no time for Burger King. I can do a zinger at KFC (…) Nando’s I have a lot of time for. An extra hot chicken wrap.’

Elsewhere during the discussion, Tom confessed that he preferred lunch to dinner because he likes the freedom that comes with extending the meal throughout the day.

He revealed: ‘A long lunch is one of the great pleasures of life, you know, because lunch has possibilities. Dinner, it finishes – ‘Oh, it’s 11 o’clock, I’ve got to get back to the dog or the children, whatever’.

‘Lunch, ‘shall we roll into dinner? Shall we carry on here?’, Fergus Henderson said that, you know, it’s just full of romance.’