18 years ago, Laura Parker Bowles married Harry Lopes, her childhood friend at Saint Cyriac Church, Lacock, Wiltshire. The daughter of Queen Camilla (then Duchess of Cornwall), director of one of the most prominent art galleries in London, had always dreamed of a simple and elegant ceremony reflecting the image of her couple. Invited to the wedding, many members of the British royal family were gathered in a country-chic atmosphere. Laura’s dress, with its medieval inspirations, was designed by Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine, the same designers who had made her mother’s dress for her wedding to Prince Charles the previous year. Proof of the deep attachment between Camilla and her daughter, particularly on May 6, 2006…
Never two without three ! After her mother Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and her brother Tom, Laura Parker Bowles has also just said yes. On May 6, 2006, she united her destiny with that of Harry Lopes, her childhood friend, at Saint Cyriac Church, the 11th century church in the small preserved village of Lacock, in Wiltshire. A ceremony that the bride and groom wanted to be chic, simple and family-friendly, the very quintessence of an English wedding. But that’s without the curiosity of some 2,000 people who, Union Jack flag in hand, gathered to watch the guests parade all along the route leading from Ray Mill House, Camilla’s home, to the village (where Pride and Prejudice was notably filmed): Prince Charles, whose affection for Laura, “the daughter he never had” can be read in his eyes; and Camilla delighted…
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