Laura Lopes

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Laura Lopes
Portrait by Reginald Gray, 2005
Born
Laura Rose Parker Bowles

(1978-01-01) 1 January 1978 (age 46)
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
OccupationArt curator[1][2]
Spouse
Harry Lopes
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(m. 2006)​
Children3
Parents
Relatives

Laura Rose Lopes (née Parker Bowles; born 1 January 1978) is an English art curator. She is the daughter of Andrew Parker Bowles and Queen Camilla, thus making her the stepdaughter of King Charles III.

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Laura Parker Bowles was born on 1 January 1978,[3] the second child of army officer Andrew Parker Bowles and Camilla Shand.

She grew up at Bolehyde Manor in Allington, and later Middlewick House in Corsham, both in Wiltshire. She and her older brother Tom were raised as Roman Catholics. Their father is Catholic, as was their paternal grandmother, Dame Ann Parker Bowles.[4] Fiona Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, is her godmother.[5]

Lopes was educated at St Mary's Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls boarding school in Dorset.[6] In the 1980s, she and her brother attended Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham.[7] She later attended Oxford Brookes University, where she studied History of Art and Marketing.[8]

Career[edit]

In 2001, Lopes spent three months as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.[9] She was Tatler's motoring correspondent in 2001 while her brother Tom was a food columnist at the same magazine.[10] Lopes managed The Space Gallery in London's Belgravia area in the mid-2000s,[6][11][12] and in October 2005 became a co-founding partner and gallery director of London's Eleven gallery.[13][14][15] She also recommends art events to her mother.[16]

From 2015 to 2023, she was the co-founding owner of the fashion boutique Mojo & McCoy in Hungerford.[17]

Marriage and children[edit]

Since her mother's wedding to Charles III in 2005, she has been the King's stepdaughter and the stepsister of Prince William and Prince Harry.[18]

On 6 May 2006, she married chartered accountant Harry Marcus George Lopes,[19] son of the Hon. George Lopes and his wife, the Hon. Sarah Astor.[20] Harry's paternal grandparents are Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough and Helen Dawson, while his maternal grandparents are Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever and Lady Irene Haig.[19]

The wedding took place at St Cyriac's Church, an 11th-century Anglican church in Lacock, Wiltshire.[19] Lopes wore a wedding dress by Anna Valentine, the designer known for designing her mother's dress for her wedding to the Prince of Wales in 2005.[21][22] 380 guests attended the wedding, and around 500 well-wishers lined the streets after the ceremony.[19] The reception was held at Ray Mill House, the nearby home of the bride's mother.[23]

Lopes gave birth to a daughter in 2008,[24] and to fraternal twin boys in 2009.[25]

Her daughter Eliza was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011.[26]

Her sons Gus and Louis were Pages of Honour to their grandmother at her coronation.[27]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Curator Laura Parker Bowles attends the private view for Jude Law's fashion illustrator sister Natasha Law's new exhibition "Hold" at Eleven on January 12, 2006 in London, England". Getty images. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. ^ Sara Parker Bowles (3 December 2013). "Alice and Laura's Pimlico Road Christmas Pop up shop". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  3. ^ Hallemann, Caroline (6 November 2022). "Meet the Children of Queen Camilla". townandcountrymag. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Why postponing Royal wedding is right thing to do - News - Scotsman.com". News.scotsman.com. 5 April 2005. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  5. ^ Nikkhah, Roya (15 April 2023). "Queen Camilla: the 'lady boss', by her inner circle". The Times. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Dignified silence of the other half". Halifax Courier. 30 March 2005. A history graduate, she runs The Space Gallery in London's Belgravia and is described as 'level-headed'. After attending a convent boarding school in Dorset, she went backpacking with friends through South America.
  7. ^ "Camilla goes back to school in Corsham". wiltshiretimes.co.uk. 25 November 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Lifestyles". Hello Magazine. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Tom and Laura". Hello Magazine. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  10. ^ Slater, Nigel (10 June 2001). "Top nosh, not too posh". The Guardian. (Laura Parker Bowles is Tatler's motoring correspondent.)
  11. ^ Newsweek Staff (5 April 2005). "Meet the Parker Bowles Windsors". Newsweek. Laura has backpacked around South America with friends, works in an art gallery in London's Belgravia area and is said to be very close to both her mother and father Andrew Parker Bowles.
  12. ^ "In the December issue: Sam Pelly's exhibition launch". Tatler. 1 November 2004. Jam the Clam entertained the throng with delicious oysters and jokes, and lovely Laura Parker Bowles (the gallery's manager) ran around plying everyone with alcohol.
  13. ^ Deakin, Annie; Shaw, Lucy (30 March 2007). "The World Experts; Gallerists". The Evening Standard. The 28-year-old daughter of Camilla Parker Bowles is gallery director at Eleven Fine Art. ... When in Venice I visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, where I studied.
  14. ^ Gleadell, Colin (3 July 2007). "Market News: Colin Gleadell rounds up the latest developments in the art market". The Telegraph. Hats off to Charlie Phillips and Laura Parker Bowles of Eleven gallery in Pimlico, south London, who have given the famous milliner Philip Treacy the run of the gallery for its latest exhibition, which opens tomorrow.
  15. ^ "About". Eleven. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  16. ^ Jobson, Robert (14 February 2024). "Camilla tours 'fantastic' art studios after daughter's recommendation". Evening Standard. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  17. ^ Meyer-Funnell, Catherine (9 December 2023). "Queen Camilla's daughter Laura Lopes forced to shut down boutique Mojo & McCoy". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Random Reminder That Prince William and Prince Harry Have a Stepsister". Cosmopolitan. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  19. ^ a b c d "Camilla's daughter marries model". BBC News. 6 May 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  20. ^ "Among friends: Inside the new King and Queen Consort's inner circle". Tatler. 15 September 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  21. ^ "Camilla's daughter hitched". Wales Online. 6 May 2006. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  22. ^ "Laura Parker Bowles Marries Former Model". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  23. ^ "A Stylish Union". Vogue. 8 May 2006. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  24. ^ "Update: Laura Lopes welcomes daughter Eliza". People. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  25. ^ "Two more grandchildren for Camilla". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  26. ^ "Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton and Prince William's bridesmaids and page boys". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  27. ^ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
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