Don’t believe everything you see on ‘The Crown.’

The British royal family has captivated the imagination of the world for centuries, naturally leading to depictions of royal family members in literature, cinema, and TV. While much of this media has given onlookers a glimpse into regal life, it doesn’t always get it right. In shows like British sitcom The Windsors or historical drama The Crown, Queen Consort Camilla is often shown with a lit cigarette between her fingers or a glass of liquor in her hand. Such portrayals have inaccurately construed her as a heavy drinker and smoker. Her real-life son, Tom Parker Bowles, is now setting the record straight.

Parker Bowles addressed rumors surrounding his mom’s alcohol and nicotine habits during an interview with The Times, while promoting his forthcoming book Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III, set to release October 22.

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“Oh, you know she has that reputation of drinking gin and smoking?” he said of his mother, known as Camilla Parker Bowles before she wed King Charles III . “Never drunk a glass of gin in her life. Doesn’t smoke,” adding that depictions of Camilla that suggest she is a heavy drinker and smoker are “totally inaccurate.”

“My mother hardly drinks,” he continued. “Never seen her so much as tipsy.” Camilla may have an occasional drink or two, but she is not a regular drinker. (Camilla and Charles have visited a few wine vineyards over the years and participated in tastings.)

In addition to dispelling falsities about his mom, Parker Bowles also gushed that Camila is a great dinner guest.

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“If anyone ever meets my mother, they always…I mean, a son would say this, but she’s someone I love going to have dinner with,” he told the publication. He added that this holds true, even if they don’t always agree on everything. “You’re always going to have your rows, differences of opinion. It would be very odd if we agreed [on] everything. Creepy. I certainly would annoy her sometimes.”

Agree or not, Parker Bowles values his mother’s opinion, which was imperative when he wrote his book. Seeing as the project explores the royal family’s relationship with food, he explained everything went through his mother first, followed by the Palace.

“My aim, obviously, as a food writer, is to write good books about food,” he said. “But my other aim is never to embarrass, or jeopardize, or blur that line [with] my stepfather [King Charles], whom I love and respect and adore.”