INTERVIEW

Queen Camilla and me: meet the stylist with royal connections

Sara Parker Bowles is the one-time Vogue fashion editor who revamps women’s wardrobes. She tells Harriet Walker how life has taken a surreal turn ever since Camilla’s coronation

Sara Parker Bowles with Camilla at a book launch in 2012 and, right, photographed last month
Sara Parker Bowles with Camilla at a book launch in 2012 and, right, photographed last month
REX FEATURES, DAN KENNEDY FOR THE TIMES MAGAZINE
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Sara Parker Bowles’ surname enters the room before she does. You might presume someone with links to the royal family would want to steer clear of disturbing skeletons in closets or airing dirty linen. Yet the former fashion editor — née Buys, and previously on staff at Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar — is rolling up her sleeves to do exactly that with the launch of her new decluttering and restyling service, Wardrobe Revivals. Ahead of our meeting at Langan’s Brasserie in Mayfair, I am politely requested not to ask about H&M — and it is not a reference to the high street shop.

Parker Bowles has seen a lot of change in her life in recent years — divorce, turning 50 and this latest career