Pub landlord throne by royal niece Emma

The niece of Camilla Parker Bowles spent a weekend working as a barmaid in Wolverhampton, it was revealed today.

But her boss today said he was angry at being "cheated" into giving Emma Parker Bowles a job because it meant 79 other people were left on the dole.

Miss Parker Bowles was taking part in a forthcoming BBC One documentary about coping on benefits when she applied for a job at the Noah's Ark pub in Wednesfield.

Landlord Clinton Hawker, aged 45, today said she was a good worker but that he felt misled by the production crew who allowed him to believe that his new minimum wage employee was going to stay for good.

Mr Hawker, who has been in the pub trade for 11 years, said: "I advertised for a bar worker in the Job Centre and had about 80 people apply.

"When she called about the job I was very impressed with Emma and invited her for an interview.

"She told me she was taking part in a documentary about coping on benefits and asked if the interview could be filmed and I said that was fine.

"I gave her the job because she said she had previous bar experience and I liked her attitude, although she wouldn't tell me her surname.

"She worked for a weekend and everyone thought she was great, the place was packed.

"Then on the second night someone recognised her as the presenter of Vroom Vroom and from her motoring columns in the national newspapers.

"I asked a producer if she was actually someone famous and he just smiled at me.

"I spent 16 years in London so her accent didn't really register with me as not being typically Wolverhampton."

Vroom Vroom is a motoring programme on Sky One.

Mr Hawker was then told that Miss Parker Bowles, 35, was leaving and heading off to Wales.

He said: "I do feel a bit cheated. I've taken on a new member of staff now but I had to put the advert in again.

"I feel sorry for all those people who wanted a job and didn't get it because I had taken on this undercover celebrity.

" I took the advert down. If they'd told me she was only staying the weekend I could have recruited someone else who needed a job.

"I paid £6 for a taxi for her to get back to where she was living in Bushbury on her first night and was told she was sleeping on the floor.

"But it turns out she was just showing people how tough it can be on benefits."

The programme, called, Famous Rich and Jobless, is being produced for BBC One by London-based Love Productions.

BBC spokeswoman Beth Regan said: "I have checked with production and they have said that they feel it was made clear from the outset and initial approach what the purpose of the filming was. Emma rang Mr Hawker to apply for the job using her real name. "She was only employed temporarily for a few days at the pub. We are disappointed that Mr Hawker feels this way about the filming because he made a very positive contribution to the series."

The show is due to air later in the year. Four celebrities – also including celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin, EastEnders and Gavin and Stacey star Larry Lamb and Meg Matthews, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher from Oasis – are stripped of their celebrity livelihood, luxuries and wealth.

In the first part they attempt to find jobs to try and supplement the remaining four days on the jobseekers allowance of £39. Mr Hawker said he had been surprised by the number of people who had applied for the job of part-time bar worker on the minimum wage of £5.80 an hour for someone aged over 22.

For Emma Parker Bowles pulling pints in Wolverhampton must have been a change – she has posed as Thunderbirds character Lady Penelope with her pink Rolls Royce Fab 1.

Last year she left London for America where she was hoping to make it big on the motoring scene. Miss Parker Bowles' aunt Camilla, wife of Prince Charles, has also spent a brief spell behind a pub bar.

The Countess of Wessex pulled a pint in the Rovers Return this week when she visited the set of Coronation Street.