Laura Lopes

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Laura Rose Lopes (née Parker Bowles) (born 1979) is the daughter of The Duchess of Cornwall and Andrew Parker Bowles. Her elder 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 nominally 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. She manages a London art gallery.

She married Harry Lopes, 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, girlfriend of stepbrother Prince William. Additional guests were Lord and Lady Howe, Lady Sarah Chatto, to make a total of 400 heads. The reception was held at Ray Mill, the nearby estate of the bride's mother.

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