Did you know ? William and Harry have a step sister
Laura Lopes has chosen to live far from the spotlight, a discretion that sometimes makes you forget her existence. Aged 42, she is yet the sister-in-law of Prince William and Prince Harry.
It is a part of the family tree of the little-known royal family. Because they have lived in the limelight since birth, the public often thinks they know everything about the life of Prince William and Prince Harry. After all, in recent decades, we have dreamed of their marriages with great pomp, we have moved by the pranks of their adorable children or we regretted the quarrel that separated them and which now keeps the two brothers thousands of kilometers away. one of the other. But what we know less - or that we forget because she has chosen to be discreet - is that William and Harry have a sister by marriage.
It is simply Laura Parker-Bowles, or Laura Lopes of her married name, the daughter of Camilla Parker-Bowles. Before marrying Prince Charles after years of a passionate affair, Camilla was married to Andrew-Parker Bowles, with whom she had two children, Tom and Laura. And when the now Duchess of Cornwall finally said yes to her prince in 2005, Laura became William and Harry's step sister.
Peaceful relationships
Despite the ties between them, relations have long been difficult between the two princes and their sister-in-law, with William and Harry blaming his mother for breaking up their parents' marriage. But in recent years, the little blended family has grown closer. In 2006, when Laura Parker-Bowles married Harry Lopes, Prince William and Kate Middleton were among the guests, and it was also the first wedding the young cut had attended together. And, almost 10 years later, in 2015, Laura Lopes' daughter was one of the bridesmaids at Kate and William's nuptials.
Little known to the general public as she has always avoided the limelight, often refusing to participate in royal events, Laura Lopes is however now fully integrated into the family. "William and Harry know their mom would have loved to have a daughter, and they would love, years after her death, to make that happen. They are doing their best. They really want their sister-in-law to be a girl. aunt for George, Charlotte, Louis and Archie. In homage to their mother, they want this bond to be strengthened "thus affirmed Andrew Morton, the biographer of Diana, according to the Belgian site Sudinfo. Laura Lopes would thus find William regularly so that her three children could play with those of the prince. Cousins by marriage would thus grow up together.
