Background
Lopes is the daughter of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Andrew Parker Bowles. Her mother"s remarriage in 2005 made Charles, Prince of Wales, her stepfather. Laura Lopes grew up at Bolehyde Manor in Allington, Wiltshire and later Middlewick House in Corsham, Wiltshire.
Education
Lopes was educated at Street Mary"s Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls boarding school in Dorset. In the 1980s, she and her brother attended Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham. She later attended Oxford Brookes University, where she studied History of Art and Marketing.
Career
She has one elder brother, Tom Parker Bowles. In 2001, Lopes spent three months as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where she said years later that she still visited when in Venice. Lopes managed The Space Gallery in London"s Belgravia area in the mid-2000s, and in October 2005 became a co-founding partner and gallery director of London"s Eleven gallery.