# Laura Lopes
**Laura Lopes** (Laura Rose Parker Bowles; born 1978) is an English art curator and gallerist, the daughter of [Queen Camilla](https://www.edgepedia.org/queen-camilla) and her first husband, [Andrew Parker Bowles](https://www.edgepedia.org/andrew-parker-bowles), and the stepdaughter of King Charles III[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). She has spent her career in the London and [Wiltshire](https://www.edgepedia.org/wiltshire) art world, managing the Eleven gallery for a decade and now showing predominantly figurative British art through the curation partnership Barber Lopes and her own venture, Laura Lopes Art[2](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about) • [3](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/). Unlike her brother, the food writer Tom Parker Bowles, she keeps a low public profile despite her position in the royal family circle[4](https://www.womanandhome.com/life/royal-news/who-is-william-and-harrys-mysterious-stepsister-laura-lopes/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name, birth | Laura Rose Parker Bowles, born 1978, second child of Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children) |
| Royal connection | Stepdaughter of King Charles III; her mother married him in 2005[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children) |
| Education | St Mary's Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls' boarding school; history of art and marketing at Oxford Brookes University[5](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3274768/meet-laura-lopes-queen-camillas-daughter-low-profile-art-curator-married-calvin-klein-model-whos) • [6](https://blauwbloed.eo.nl/royaltynieuws/laura-lopes) |
| Gallery career | Internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, then ten years managing Eleven Fine Art[2](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about) |
| Current platform | Barber Lopes, with Davina Barber, exhibitor at the British Art Fair; her own Laura Lopes Art is based in Wiltshire[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children) • [7](https://www.britishartfair.co.uk/exhibitors) • [3](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/) |
| Marriage and family | Married Harry Lopes in 2006; a daughter, Eliza (born 2008), and twin sons, Gus and Louis (born 2009)[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children) |
## Early life and education
Laura Rose Parker Bowles was born in 1978, the second child of Camilla Shand and Andrew Parker Bowles, a [British Army](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-army) officer; the couple had married in 1973 and their first child, Thomas Henry Charles, known as Tom, was born in 1974[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). Her childhood was spent on large country estates in Wiltshire; the [South China Morning Post](https://www.edgepedia.org/south-china-morning-post) reports that she grew up at Bolehyde Manor, an eight-bedroom house with a swimming pool, tennis courts, and 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of land[5](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3274768/meet-laura-lopes-queen-camillas-daughter-low-profile-art-curator-married-calvin-klein-model-whos).
She boarded at St Mary's Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls' school whose boarding fees were reportedly £12,300 (about US$15,840) per year and which closed in 2020[5](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3274768/meet-laura-lopes-queen-camillas-daughter-low-profile-art-curator-married-calvin-klein-model-whos). She then studied history of art and marketing at [Oxford Brookes University](https://www.edgepedia.org/oxford-brookes-university), the same direction of study as Catherine, now [Princess of Wales](https://www.edgepedia.org/princess-of-wales)[6](https://blauwbloed.eo.nl/royaltynieuws/laura-lopes).
Her parents divorced in 1995, and her mother's long relationship with Prince Charles made the family a target of tabloid attention through the 1990s; Vanity Fair records that Laura, close to her father, resented the idea of another man taking his place[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). According to the royal correspondent Katie Nicholl's book *William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls*, she and her future stepbrother Prince William had heated arguments in that period over who was to blame for their broken homes[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children).
## Career in the art world
**Early positions.** In the early 2000s Lopes worked briefly alongside her brother as Tatler's motoring correspondent before turning to art dealing in London[4](https://www.womanandhome.com/life/royal-news/who-is-william-and-harrys-mysterious-stepsister-laura-lopes/). Vanity Fair reports that Prince Charles helped her obtain a position at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice so she could pursue art curation[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children); her own biography describes this as an internship at [Peggy Guggenheim](https://www.edgepedia.org/peggy-guggenheim) in Venice[2](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about).
**Eleven Fine Art.** After the Venice internship, Lopes managed Eleven Fine Art for ten years, a gallery that showed emerging and established artists[2](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about). The gallery's own history says it was founded in 2005 by Charlie Phillips, previously a founding director of Haunch of Venison, and that during its eleven years in [Belgravia](https://www.edgepedia.org/belgravia) it mounted more than eighty exhibitions, working with artists including Harry Cory Wright, Natasha Law, and Jonathan Yeo[8](https://elevenfineart.com/pages/about). The French magazine Madame Figaro describes Lopes herself as co-founding the Belgravia gallery, which it calls Eleven, in 2005[9](https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/portrait-qui-sont-tom-parker-bowles-et-laura-lopes-les-enfants-de-la-duchesse-camilla-010421-195979).
**Barber Lopes and Laura Lopes Art.** Lopes now presents exhibitions as part of the curation team Barber Lopes, with Davina Barber; the team presented an exhibit at the 2023 British Art Fair[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). Barber Lopes is listed among the exhibitors at the British Art Fair 2026, held at the Saatchi Gallery in London[7](https://www.britishartfair.co.uk/exhibitors), and the pair showed "Grounded – Works on Paper" together[3](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/). Under the name Laura Lopes Art, based in Wiltshire, she showcases established and emerging British artists creating predominantly figurative work; recent shows include the British Art Fair 2024 and a solo exhibition with the painter Endellion Lycett-Green at Thyme[3](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/). The artists on her roster include Timo Betjeman, Miranda Donovan, Jake Garfield, Kate Kirk, Endellion Lycett Green, Camille Lewis, Sammi Lynch, Alice Macdonald, Kathryn Maple, Kitty Rice, and Agnes Treherne[2](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about). Vanity Fair also notes that she ran a boutique, Mojo & McCoy, which she announced she was closing[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children).
## Marriage and family
In 2006 Lopes married Harry Lopes, a former [Calvin Klein](https://www.edgepedia.org/calvin-klein) model who became a chartered accountant; he is the grandson of both Lord Astor of Hever and the 2nd Baron Roborough, and the South China Morning Post reports that he is set to inherit an estate in the [Scottish Highlands](https://www.edgepedia.org/scottish-highlands)[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children) • [5](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3274768/meet-laura-lopes-queen-camillas-daughter-low-profile-art-curator-married-calvin-klein-model-whos). The wedding was attended by Prince Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children).
The couple have three children: a daughter, Eliza, born in 2008, and fraternal twin sons, Gus and Louis, born in 2009[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). Queen Camilla said at the time of the twin birth that she was delighted, noting that twins were new to the family[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children).
## Public profile within the royal family
Lopes appeared publicly at the 2005 wedding of her mother and Prince Charles, staying with her mother at [Clarence House](https://www.edgepedia.org/clarence-house) the night before the ceremony[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). She attended the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, where [Univision](https://www.edgepedia.org/univision) described her arrival in a green star-patterned dress and black hat as passing without drawing attention[10](https://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/esto-es-lo-que-sabemos-de-laura-lopes-la-hermanastra-de-los-principes-william-y-harry).
Her visibility has grown since her mother became Queen Consort. At the 2023 coronation, her twin sons served as pages of honor alongside Prince George[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). She often accompanies Camilla at events, and Vanity Fair describes her as a private but down-to-earth and warm presence who is close to her mother and serves as a voice of reason within it[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children). A widely reported anecdote from the BBC radio presenter [Sara Cox](https://www.edgepedia.org/sara-cox), who mistook Lopes for another guest at an authors' celebration at Clarence House, ended with Camilla greeting her own daughter with a surprised "Hiiii" as the mistake dawned on Cox[11](https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/embarrassing-mishap-queen-camilla-true-colors-royal-event/).
## People sharing the name
The name Laura Lopes is shared by several unrelated public figures, a point worth noting for anyone searching records. They include a Brazilian actress known for the television series *Super Família* (2019) and the music video *Laura Lopes: Abaporu* (2012)[12](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9728212/), a Rio de Janeiro philosophy undergraduate and founder of the Afroo! collective[13](https://br.linkedin.com/in/laura-lopes-057462266/en), and the Brazilian-born London painter Lenny Lopes, whose Lopes Gallery exhibits internationally[14](https://www.lennylopesart.com/). The subject of this article is distinguished from them by her role as an English art curator and royal stepdaughter.
## References
1. [Meet Queen Camilla's Children, Vanity Fair (December 18, 2023)](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/meet-queen-camillas-children)
2. [About, Laura Lopes Art](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/about)
3. [Laura Lopes Art (homepage)](https://www.lauralopes.co.uk/)
4. [Who is Prince William and Prince Harry's mysterious stepsister, Laura Lopes?, Woman & Home (February 4, 2022)](https://www.womanandhome.com/life/royal-news/who-is-william-and-harrys-mysterious-stepsister-laura-lopes/)
5. [Meet Laura Lopes, Queen Camilla's daughter, South China Morning Post (August 19, 2024)](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3274768/meet-laura-lopes-queen-camillas-daughter-low-profile-art-curator-married-calvin-klein-model-whos)
6. [Laura Lopes: wie is de dochter van koningin Camilla?, Blauw Bloed (July 17, 2023, updated November 28, 2024)](https://blauwbloed.eo.nl/royaltynieuws/laura-lopes)
7. [2026 Exhibitors, British Art Fair](https://www.britishartfair.co.uk/exhibitors)
8. [About, Eleven Fine Art](https://elevenfineart.com/pages/about)
9. [Tom Parker Bowles et Laura Lopes, les enfants très discrets de la reine consort Camilla, Madame Figaro (April 1, 2021)](https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/portrait-qui-sont-tom-parker-bowles-et-laura-lopes-les-enfants-de-la-duchesse-camilla-010421-195979)
10. [Esto es lo que sabemos de Laura Lopes, la hermanastra de los príncipes William y Harry, Univision](https://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/esto-es-lo-que-sabemos-de-laura-lopes-la-hermanastra-de-los-principes-william-y-harry)
11. [How One "Embarrassing Mishap" Showed Queen Camilla's "True Colors" at a Royal Event, Marie Claire (March 2, 2026)](https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/embarrassing-mishap-queen-camilla-true-colors-royal-event/)
12. [Laura Lopes, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9728212/)
13. [Laura Lopes, Colégio de Aplicação/UERJ, LinkedIn](https://br.linkedin.com/in/laura-lopes-057462266/en)
14. [About, Lopes Gallery (Lenny Lopes)](https://www.lennylopesart.com/)
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