{"id":129694,"date":"2026-02-11T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:02:31","slug":"queen-camilla-is-a-mom-of-2-what-to-know-about-her-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129694\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla is a mom of 2: What to know about her children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Together, King Charles III<\/a> and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort<\/a>, lead a blended family.<\/p>\n

Camilla<\/a>, who celebrated her 77th birthday on July 17, is stepmother to Charles’ two sons, Princes William<\/a> and Harry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She also entered her 2005 marriage to Charles<\/a> with two children of her own, Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes.<\/p>\n

Parker Bowles and Lopes are Camilla’s children with her ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, to whom she was married from 1973 to 1995.<\/p>\n

Just before Charles and Camilla’s coronation<\/a> in May 2023, Tom Parker Bowles spoke out<\/a> about his mom ascending to the throne alongside Charles.<\/p>\n

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Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, stand with their children, from left to right, Prince Harry, Prince William, Tom and Laura Parker-Bowles, in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n

Corbis via Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

“She’s still our mother,” Parker Bowles said on “The News Agents” podcast, adding, “This wasn’t any sort of endgame. She married the person she loved and this is what happened.”<\/p>\n

Here is what to know about the queen consort’s two children.<\/p>\n

Thomas Henry Parker Bowles\"PHOTO:<\/p>\n

Tom Parker Bowles attends the reopening party at Suka Restaurant in London, March 15, 2007.<\/p>\n

WireImage via Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

Thomas Henry Parker Bowles, known as Tom, was born in 1974 and is a godson of Charles, now also his stepfather.<\/p>\n

Parker Bowles is a London-based food critic whose work has appeared in “The Mail on Sunday,” “Night and Day” and “Tatler,” according to his author page<\/a> on his publishers’ website.<\/p>\n

He is also the author of two books, “The Year of Eating Dangerously” and “E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed,” and several cookbooks, including “Time for Tea,” published last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is joined by her son Tom Parker Bowles and daughter Laura Lopes watch the racing in Cheltenham, England, March 11, 2015.<\/p>\n

Indigo\/Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

In a 2007 review of his book “The Year of Eating Dangerously” published in The New York Times<\/a>, Parker Bowles’s writing voice was described as “characterized by a certain slapdash immediacy, which seems completely apt, given his subject. His sense of humor is intact throughout and never sharper than when he’s writing about himself, whom he portrays as a callow Englishman with a crush on America and a tourist’s eagerness to fit in by speaking the lingo.”<\/p>\n

Parker Bowles married Sara Buys in 2005, the same year his mother wed Charles.<\/p>\n

He and Buys share two children, a son and a daughter.<\/p>\n

Their son, Master Freddy Parker Bowles will join his cousins, Master Gus Lopes and Master Louis Lopes, as Camilla’s Pages of Honor at the coronation<\/a> on May 6.<\/p>\n

Laura Lopes<\/p>\n

Laura Lopes attends the launch of the “Fortnum & Mason Christmas & Other Winter Feasts” cookbook by Tom Parker Bowles in London, Oct. 17, 2018.<\/p>\n

David M. Benett\/Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

Laura Parker Bowles Lopes, known as Laura Lopes, was born in 1978.<\/p>\n

She married her husband, Harry Lopes, in 2006, and took his name.<\/p>\n

The couple went on to have three children, twin sons and a daughter who served as bridesmaid at William’s wedding to Kate, the Princess of Wales, in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales holds Eliza Lopes as he and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall greet crowd of admirers from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011.<\/p>\n

FilmMagic\/Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

According to her professional website<\/a>, Laura Lopes works in the arts.<\/p>\n

She completed an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a modern art museum in Venice, Italy, and then went on to manage an art gallery near London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Together, King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, lead a blended family. Camilla, who celebrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3732,55818,55820,55822,1428,55821,9,24,15971,63,11981,1433,1315,122,124,123,486,9360,55819],"class_list":{"0":"post-129694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-abc-news","9":"tag-balmoral","10":"tag-coffin","11":"tag-gma","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-lie-in-state","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-procession","19":"tag-queen-camilla","20":"tag-queen-elizabeth","21":"tag-queens","22":"tag-queens-headlines","23":"tag-queens-news","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-st-giles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}