Laura Lopes

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name = Laura Lopes
other_names = Laura Rose Lopes
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birth_date = birth date and age|1978|01|01
birth_place = London, England
occupation = Columnist, television presenter and author
spouse = Harry Lopes (2006-present)
children = Eliza Lopes (b. 2008)
parents = Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
relations = Tom Parker Bowles (brother)
Prince William Prince Henry of Wales Henry Pitman William Pitman and Thomas Pitman (stepbrothers)

Laura Rose Lopes (née Parker Bowles) (born January 1, 1978) is the daughter of The Duchess of Cornwall and Andrew Parker Bowles. Her older brother is Tom Parker Bowles. Her stepfather is The Prince of Wales.

Laura Parker Bowles was educated at St Mary's, Shaftesbury, Dorset, a Roman Catholic convent school. She and her brother, Tom, were raised Roman Catholics, as their father, and particularly their paternal grandmother, the late Dame Ann Parker Bowles (née de Trafford), were Roman Catholics.

Following a gap year backpacking through South America, Laura Parker Bowles attended Oxford Brookes University, where she studied history. In 2001, she was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. She manages a London art gallery.

She married Harry Marcus George Lopes, born October 7 1977, son of the Hon. George Edward Lopes and wife the Hon. Sarah Violet Astor and a grandson of the 2nd Baron Roborough and the 2nd Baron Astor of Hever, on 6 May 2006 in St. Cyriac's Anglican Church, Lacock, Wiltshire. Laura wore a diamond tiara on her wedding day that belongs to her mother's family. Her closest family and friends attended the ceremony and reception, to include Kate Middleton, the girlfriend of stepbrother Prince William. Additional guests were Lord and Lady Howe, Lady Sarah Chatto, to make a total of 400 guests. The reception was held at Ray Mill, the nearby estate of the bride's mother.

Harry Lopes, formerly an underwear model for Calvin Klein, is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and is now a chartered accountant. Lopes is an Old Etonian who stands to inherit Gnaton Hall, Devonshire as well as the 3,000-acre (12 km²) Skelpick estate in the Highlands, Scotland.

In July 2007, Lopes announced to News of the World that she and her husband were expecting their first child, anticipated for January 2008. Lopes gave birth to a daughter Eliza on 16 January, 2008. [ [http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3QTd-a495F4f7w0a3H4m_mB1Gwg Joy for Camilla over new grandchild] ] [ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=508939&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=230 Is Gordon heading into a China crisis? | the Daily Mail ] ]

Ancestry

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1= 1. Laura Lopes
2= 2. Andrew Parker Bowles
3= 3. Camilla Rosemary Shand
4= 4. Derek Henry Parker Bowles
5= 5. Dame Ann de Trafford
6= 6. Bruce Shand
7= 7. The Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt
8= 8. Eustace Parker
9= 9. Wilma Mary Garnault Bowles
10= 10. Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Baronet
11= 11. The Hon. Cynthia Hilda Evelyn Cadogan
12= 12. Philip Morton Shand
13= 13. Edith Marguerite Harrington
14= 14. Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe
15= 15. Sonia Rosemary Keppel
16= 16. The Hon. Algernon Robert Parker
17= 17. Emma Jane Kenyon
18= 18. Henry Ferryman Bowles of Forty Hall, 1st Baronet
19= 19. Florence Broughton
20= 20. Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet
21= 21. Violet Alice Maude Franklin
22= 22. Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea
23= 23. The Hon. Mildred Cecilia Harriet Sturt
24= 24. Alexander Faulkner Shand
25= 25. Augusta Mary Coates
26= 26. George Woods Harrington
27= 27. Alice Edith Stillman
28= 28. Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
29= 29. Maud Marianne Calvert
30= 30. The Hon. George Keppel
31= 31. Alice Edmonstone

References

* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/prince-charles-stepdaughter-marries/2006/05/07/1146940396895.html Prince Charles' stepdaughter marries] , Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 2006.
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2168652,00.html Elliot, John and Christopher Morgan: "A delicate day for the Parker-Bowles."] The Sunday Times, 7 May 2006.
* [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-05-07-parker-bowles_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA USA Today, "Laura Parker Bowles marries former model"; May 7, 2006]
* [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19785793_ITM "Space odyssey: Laura Parker Bowles digs deep for talent at a progressive London gallery"]
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/print.html?in_article_id=385379&in_page_id=1770 The Daily Mail; "Lovely Laura Bowles them over" by Amanda Perthen and Laura Collins]
* [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15143737_ITM Wedding of the year gets right royal back-up]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-128463466.html The Evening Standard; "Prince sets up trust funds for Camilla's son and daughter"; February 11, 2005]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-114309991.html The Evening Standard,"Camilla's daughter to display charms for young artist"; March 15, 2004]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60427539.html Daily Record; "Wills' night out with Camilla's kids"; February 26, 1999]
* [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15168934_ITM One wedding, three princes and a right royal day out; May 8, 2006]