Will Camilla Parker Bowles’ children get royal titles? Everything to know about the Queen Consort's kids

Camilla Parker Bowles has two children (Image via Max Mumby/Getty Images)
Camilla Parker Bowles has two children (Image via Max Mumby/Getty Images)

Charles III officially ascended to the throne to become King of England, making Camilla Parker Bowles the Queen Consort.

With Camilla receiving the title of Queen Consort, many questioned if her children would also be awarded royal monikers.

The answer to that is, no. Camilla's relationship with the royal family comes from her marriage to King Charles. This means her children with ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles will not have any royal titles.

Titles in the Royal family are either passed by birth or by marriage. Children with ex-partners are not given any royal titles to hold.

Queen Consort is the official title for "King's Wife." Her responsibilities include accompanying her husband on royal tours, meets and ceremonies, and being a role model for the general public.


Who are Camilla Parker Bowles’ children?

The Queen Consort does not have any kids with the King but has two children from her previous marriage. Camilla married Andrew Parker-Bowles in July 1973, after both of their fathers got together to announce their engagement via The Times on March 15, 1973. According to American biographer Sally Bedell Smith, Andrew was forced into proposing following that.

The couple had their first child, Thomas Parker Bowles, on December 18, 1974, and later gave birth to daughter, Laura Rose Parker Bowles, on January 1, 1978.

Thomas was 21 years old, and Laura was 17 when the couple divorced in 1995.


Thomas Parker Bowles is a restaurant critic

Thomas is a British food writer and food critic. He has written seven cookbooks and won the Guild of Food Writers award in 2010 for his writings on British food. He is famous for appearing as a judge in numerous UK television food series. Interestingly, King Charles III is not only his stepfather but also his godfather.

He grew up in Bolehyde Manor in Allington, Wiltshire, and went to Summer Fields School in Oxford. He attended two colleges, Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford. Thomas began writing about food right after finishing college. He once said that his mother's cooking inspired him to take the culinary path.

Thomas has two children, 15-year-old daughter Lola and 11-year-old son Frederick with ex-wife Sara Buys. The couple married on September 10, 2005, but separated in 2018.


Laura Rose Lopes is an art curator

Camilla Parker Bowles' daughter, Laura, is an art curator who co-founded Eleven, a fine art gallery in London.

She grew up with her brother at Bolehyde Manor in Allington and went to a Catholic girls boarding school in Dorset called St Mary's Shaftesbury.

She later studied History of Art and Marketing at Oxford Brookes University.

Before founding her own gallery, Laura managed The Space Gallery in Belgravia, London.

She is married to Harry Lopes, a former Calvin Klein model turned chartered accountant. The couple married on May 6, 2006, at St Cyriac's Church in Lacock, Wiltshire.

The couple has three children. Their daughter and oldest child, Eliza, is 14 years old. After Eliza, the pair gave birth to fraternal twin boys, Gus and Louis, in December 2009.

Eliza was a bridesmaid to Catherine Middleton during her wedding to Prince William on 29 April 2011.

Both Thomas and Laura have a friendly relationship with the royals, especially their with mother Camilla, and are occasionally spotted together at public events.

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