NOW that King Charles III succeeded the throne, his wife, Camilla, has officially become queen consort.
When the then Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005, he became the stepfather to two children, and she became stepmother to Prince William and Prince Harry.
Who are Camilla Parker Bowles’s children?
Camilla Park Bowles shares two children from her previous marriage with retired British Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles.
Here’s everything you need to know about their children – who tend to shy away from the royal public spotlight and royal experts believe they will carry on wanting things to stay that way.
Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles is a British food writer and food critic
Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles, born December 18, 1974, in London, is the eldest child of Camilla and Andrew.
Tom is a British food writer, food critic and author of seven cookbooks – in 2010, he won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food.
During his time in education, Parker Bowles was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford and Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham, before going on to study at Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford.
Parker Bowles states that immediately after leaving school, he fell in love with food writing, and it was his mother’s cooking skills and recipes that inspired him to become a food writer.
He is also known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.
He shares two children from a previous marriage associate editor of Harpers & Queen magazine and senior editor of British Town & Country magazine, Sara Buys.
In 2021, his partner, former journalist Alice Procope tragically died from cancer aged just 42 on March 17.
Uniquely, King Charles is both his stepfather and godfather.
Laura Lopes
Laura Lopes is an English art curator
Laura Rose Lopes, born January 1, 1978, is the second child of Camilla and Andrew – and the stepdaughter of King Charles III.
She is an English art curator and co-founding partner and gallery director of London’s Eleven gallery.
Lopes was educated at St Mary’s Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls boarding school in Dorset, before attending Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham, alongside her brother.
She later attended Oxford Brookes University, where she studied History of Art and Marketing.
Laura is married to chartered accountant Harry Marcus George Lopes, after the pair wed in May 2006.
The wedding took place at St Cyriac’s Church, an 11th-century Anglican church in Lacock, Wiltshire – where Lopes wore a wedding dress by Anna Valentine, the designer known for designing her mother’s dress for her wedding to the Prince of Wales in 2005.
Laura and her husband share three children, daughter Eliza and twin sons Gus and Louis.
On April 29, 2011 their daughter Eliza was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Do Camilla Parker Bowles’s children have royal titles?
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022 – many royal family members were appointed new royal titles, as Charles became King.
However, Camilla’s children did not inherit any royal titles or duties.
Although they are part of the royal family through marriage, as they are not blood they will not be representing the Crown.
The children of Queen Consort Camilla are not in the line of succession.
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