The year 2005 was a big one for weddings in the Parker Bowles clan. First, Camilla, Queen Consort, tied the knot with King Charles III, and then her only son, Tom Parker Bowles, followed suit with his wedding to Sara Buys a few months later. The couple said “I Do” at the St. Nicholas Church in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, in front of a guest list that read like a royal social registry and included the future King and Queen of England, along with Princes William and Harry, and British rock royalty Mick Jagger. A reception for the happy couple followed at Middlewick House, the Parker Bowles family home.
Although she was not officially royalty, the new Mrs. Parker Bowles looked regal as she sailed down the aisle in a custom gown designed by Alexander McQueen and Sarah Burton, who later made Princess Catherine’s stunning bridal gown. The simple, strapless, mermaid-style gown was the epitome of quiet luxury and came with quite a luxurious price tag of more than $12,000 dollars. Parker-Bowles told The Times that it was the most extravagant clothing purchase she’d ever bought and that, while she loves owning one of the designer’s originals, (as she explained, “I feel very sentimental about the fact I have something he made”), she is mortified that she spent so much. She noted, “I’d do it very differently now, but it had to be really formal. It had to be what it was.”
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