No one really talks about Camilla’s first family.
Today you’ll discover everything about them.
Here’s what you need to know about Prince William and Prince Harry’s step-siblings.
There’s no denying that the institution of the British monarchy is steeped in tradition. But King Charles’s blended branch of “the firm,” as if the royal family is sometimes called, is decidedly modern. When the then Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005, he became the stepfather to two children from her first marriage to Andrew Parker-Bowles, and she became stepmother to Princes Harry and William.
Here’s everything you need to know about their step-siblings, Laura Lopes and Tom Parker Bowles, who recently appeared at the Queen’s funeral—and are depicted in season five of The Crown.
Tom Parker Bowles
Camilla’s oldest child, Tom Parker Bowles, has the curious honor of having Prince Charles as both a stepfather and a godfather. Born on December 18, 1974, he is primarily known as a successful food writer.
“I was naughty, partied a bit hard. When I was younger I got sacked all the time,” Parker Bowles said recently in an interview about his career, perhaps alluding to his reported drug use in the late ’90s. “But I loved eating and could just about string a sentence together, so I thought I could write about food.”
Tom, now 47, has authored several cookbooks, served as The Mail on Sunday’s restaurant critic, has been a contributor to Esquire UK, and often appears as a judge on culinary reality shows and in competitions.
In September of 2005, he married fashion editor Sara Buys. The couple have two children: a daughter Lola, born in October 2007 and son Freddy, born in February 2010, but have since split.
Laura Lopes
Born on New Year’s Day in 1978, Lopes is Camilla’s youngest child and only daughter. Growing up, she attended Catholic boarding school and later Oxford Brookes University before launching into a career in the arts.
After managing the Space Gallery in London, she co-founded Eleven, a fine art gallery in Belgravia, in 2005. Just one year later in 2006, she married Harry Lopes, a former Calvin Klein model-turned-chartered accountant (roughly the equivalent of a certified public accountant in the States). Princes William and Harry were both in attendance at the wedding.
Laura and her husband now have three children: Eliza, who was born in January 2008, and twin boys, Gus and Louis, who were born in December of 2009.
While Laura keeps a relatively low-profile, she reportedly gets along very well with her step brothers.
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No one really talks about Camilla’s first family.
Charles and Camilla with Lopes’s daughter Eliza at the royal wedding in 2011.
Children of the Queen Consort, Laura Lopes and Tom Parker Bowles arrive with their family at Westminster Abbey ahead of The State funeral of Queen Elizabeth.
Laura Parker Bowles and Harry Lopes on their wedding day in 2006.
Laura with her mother and brother at the Cheltenham Festival in 2015.
Tom Parker Bowles and his wife Sara on their wedding day in 2005.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, with her son Tom Parker Bowles at the launch of his cookbook ‘Fortnum& Mason: The Cook Book.’
