Despite the highly publicised lives of the British royal family, Queen Camilla’s daughter from her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, Laura Lopes, has managed to stay largely out of the public eye. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Laura Lopes is the daughter of Queen Camilla from her first marriage to Tom Parker Bowles.
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jpg"} Laura Lopes is the daughter of Queen Camilla from her first marriage to Tom Parker Bowles. Photo: @royalisticism/Instagram The Queen Consort has two children from her first marriage – Tom Parker Bowles, 49, an established food critic and author of several cookbooks, and his younger sister Laura Lopes, 46, an art curator who keeps a lower profile. Here is everything we know about Queen Camilla’s media-shy daughter.
Laura Lopes had a privileged childhood {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Laura Lopes went to a boarding school. Photo: @millamountbatten/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @millamountbatten/Instagram Laura Rose Parker Bowles was born in 1978, to Camilla and Andrew, a retired British army officer. She reportedly spent her childhood in Bolehyde Manor, an eight-bedroom country house in Wiltshire with a swimming pool, tennis courts and 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of land.
She attended St Mary’s Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls’ boarding school. The school shut down in 2020 but parents reportedly paid £12,300 (US$15,840) boarding fees per year. She married a Calvin Klein model {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/16/414f27fe-4e1e-4f5c-a30e-c0fae02dc31b_6fdff4e5.jpg"} Harry Lopes and Laura Parker Bowles after their wedding in 2006. Photo: Getty Images In 2006, Laura and Calvin Klein model-turned-chartered accountant Harry Lopes exchanged vows in Wiltshire.
Laura stunned in an Anna Valentine bridal gown, the same designer her mother Camilla chose for her wedding to King Charles in 2005. Harry is the grandson of Massey Henry Lopes, second Baron Roborough, and is set to inherit Gnaton Hall in Devon and Skelpick Estate in the Scottish Highlands. On top of being the grandson of a baron, Harry is also related to the Astor family, one of America’s wealthiest families.
The couple have three children together: 15-year-old daughter Eliza, and twin sons, Gus and Louis, aged 14. She had a troubled relationship with her royal stepbrothers, Princes William and Harry {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"King Charles and Queen Camilla with their children (from left) Prince Harry, Prince William, Laura Parker Bowles and Tom Parker Bowles.
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jpg"} King Charles and Queen Camilla with their children (from left) Prince Harry, Prince William, Laura Parker Bowles and Tom Parker Bowles. Photo: Getty Images The love triangle between the then Prince Charles, his ex-wife Princess Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles was a highly publicised affair. According to William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls , a 2010 book written by author and journalist Katie Nicholl, Prince William and Lopes would regularly get into rows about their parents when King Charles and Queen Camilla wed in 2005.
“William would blame Camilla for all the hurt she had caused his mother, which would send Laura into a rage. Laura was not having any of it. She would take a hard line and fire back at William, ‘Your father has ruined my life,’” Nicholl wrote in her book.
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Prince William and Princess Catherine after their wedding ceremony – Laura Lopes’ daughter Eliza was their flower girl. Photo: EPA","url":"https://img.
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Photo: EPA However, it seems the step-siblings may have since made amends, as William and Kate had Lopes’ daughter Eliza as their flower girl at their wedding in 2011. She’s an art curator {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Laura Lopes works as an art curator.
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jpg"} Laura Lopes works as an art curator. Photo: Getty Images Lopes enrolled at Oxford Brookes University where she studied history of art as well as marketing. She currently works as an art curator.
Laura Lopes, one of Queen Camilla’s 2 children from her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, had a privileged childhood, growing up in a country manor She is married to Harry Lopes, a model, accountant and grandson of a baron who is set to inherit an estate in the Scottish Highlands; they have 3 children, Eliza, Gus and Louis.
