Have you heard about Princes William and Harry’s step-sister, who has been at many Royal events and even made it to an official Royal photo? Laura Lopes, the daughter of Prince Charles’s second wife and Camilla Parker Bowles is the forgotten Royal, and it’s time you learn about her.
Laura who is 40 years old and is a gallery worker in London, had been kept away from the spotlight by her mother Camilla. Despite being close to William and Harry, there is a lot of drama which has surfaced, as people are not sure if Laura would be invited to the May wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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Laura is the daughter of Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles from her first marriage to military man Andrew Parker Bowles. That makes her step-sister to both William and Harry. Laura’s parents divorced in 1995, after which Camilla famously married her longtime friend Charles in 2005. Laura has a brother named Tom, who is an award winning food writer.
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Laura is married to an accountant named Harry Lopes. They got married in 2006 and she has three children with him, a daughter Eliza and twins Gus and Louis
Laura currently works to manage several art gallery spaces in London. She had been educated at a Catholic school in Dorset and went on to study History of art and marketing at Oxford Brookes University. She had briefly worked for British society magazine Tatler as a correspondent.
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Harry Lopes, Laura’s husband is no commoner himself. He is the son of an English baron and will inherit the Devon aristocratic estate of Gnaton Hall and the Skelpick estate in Scotland. Harry had been educated at the elite school Eton, and also briefly modelled for the brand Calvin Klein.
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Laura has been keeping a low profile for a decade now. Though her glitzy wedding to Harry saw quite a few famous names, since then, it has been rumoured that Laura had been asked by her mum to be private about her personal life and avoid the media.
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Laura shares a pretty close bond with her step-brother Princes William and Harry. Her five-year-old daughter Eliza was even Kate Middleton’s bridesmaid during her marriage to Prince William in 2011.
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Laura even made it to the official Royal photocall which took place on Charles and Camilla’s wedding day. At that time, nobody really knew that Laura was in fact, Camilla’s daughter.
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Laura and Kate Middleton are pretty close too and have been hanging out with each other since before Kate’s wedding to William. In fact, Kate was even spotted in Laura’s galleries several times.
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There have been widespread conjectures about who is going to be Meghan Markle’s bridesmaids during her wedding to Harry. Since Laura is still pretty close to the Royals, she could be Meghan’s bridesmaid too. But Meghan already has a bunch of famous friends who she might want by her side during her wedding.
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There have been a lot of conjecture about how much of the extended Royal family will be at Harry and Meghan’s May wedding. While, names like Duchess of York, Sarah, the ex-wife of the controversial Prince Andrew might not get a wedding invitation, it is not clear whether Camilla’s children from a former marriage would either. The Queen is notoriously meticulous about these details.
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Reports suggest that William and Harry have spoken up about wanting their aunt Sarah at their wedding. And since they are also working very hard to keep the Royal family together, they might just say that they want Laura at Harry’s wedding too.
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