Lopes was educated at St Mary's Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls boarding school in Dorset.[6] In the 1980s, she and her brother attended Heywood Preparatory School in Corsham.[7] She later attended Oxford Brookes University, where she studied History of Art and Marketing.[8]
In 2001, Lopes spent three months as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim CollectioninVenice.[9] She was Tatler's motoring correspondent in 2001 while her brother Tom was a food columnist at the same magazine.[10] Lopes managed The Space Gallery in London's Belgravia area in the mid-2000s,[6][11][12] and in October 2005 became a co-founding partner and gallery director of London's Eleven gallery.[13][14][15] She also recommends art events to her mother.[16]
From 2015 to 2023, she was the co-founding owner of the fashion boutique Mojo & McCoy in Hungerford.[17]
The wedding took place at St Cyriac's Church, an 11th-century Anglican church in Lacock, Wiltshire.[19] 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.[21][22] 380 guests attended the wedding, and around 500 well-wishers lined the streets after the ceremony.[19] The reception was held at Ray Mill House, the nearby home of the bride's mother.[23]
Lopes gave birth to a daughter in 2008,[24] and to fraternal twin boys in 2009.[25]
^ ab"Dignified silence of the other half". Halifax Courier. 30 March 2005. A history graduate, she runs The Space Gallery in London's Belgravia and is described as 'level-headed'. After attending a convent boarding school in Dorset, she went backpacking with friends through South America.
^Slater, Nigel (10 June 2001). "Top nosh, not too posh". The Guardian. (Laura Parker Bowles is Tatler's motoring correspondent.)
^Newsweek Staff (5 April 2005). "Meet the Parker Bowles Windsors". Newsweek. Laura has backpacked around South America with friends, works in an art gallery in London's Belgravia area and is said to be very close to both her mother and father Andrew Parker Bowles.
^"In the December issue: Sam Pelly's exhibition launch". Tatler. 1 November 2004. Jam the Clam entertained the throng with delicious oysters and jokes, and lovely Laura Parker Bowles (the gallery's manager) ran around plying everyone with alcohol.
^Deakin, Annie; Shaw, Lucy (30 March 2007). "The World Experts; Gallerists". The Evening Standard. The 28-year-old daughter of Camilla Parker Bowles is gallery director at Eleven Fine Art. ... When in Venice I visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, where I studied.
^Gleadell, Colin (3 July 2007). "Market News: Colin Gleadell rounds up the latest developments in the art market". The Telegraph. Hats off to Charlie Phillips and Laura Parker Bowles of Eleven gallery in Pimlico, south London, who have given the famous milliner Philip Treacy the run of the gallery for its latest exhibition, which opens tomorrow.
^"About". Eleven. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
