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Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC & Bar, DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla. After the war he became a wine merchant.
May 8, 2020 · In an excerpt from his book Previous Engagements, selected by Her Royal Highness to share on VE Day, Major Shand recalls his time serving in North Africa in 1942 which saw him lose two of his closest comrades during the Battle of El Alamein and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war.
Jun 11, 2006 · Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC & Bar, DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla.
Queen Camilla's father, Bruce Shand, was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany - and earned a Military Cross for valour.
Apr 22, 2024 · Camilla, 76, will view a Second World War tunic that belonged to her father, Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again at...
Jun 11, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand: War hero who was Camilla's 'rock'. Major Bruce Shand, father of the Duchess of Cornwall, had a long and eventful life, winning two Military Crosses in World War II before...
Sep 8, 2023 · Camilla was born in 1947 to Major Bruce Shand, a polo-playing, fox-hunting army officer turned Mayfair wine merchant, and Rosalind Shand, daughter of Roland Cubitt, the third Baron Ashcombe.
Jun 11, 2006 · The Duchess of Cornwall's father Major Bruce Shand has died at the age of 89, Clarence House said. The former Cavalry officer died at his home in Dorset on Sunday morning with his family...
Dec 20, 2021 · Sharing tales from the military service of her father, Major Bruce Shand, she said the simple matter of hearing a friendly voice over the airways could make an important difference to servicemen...
Jun 12, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand, who has died aged 89, was a gallant soldier, a wine merchant, a master of foxhounds and a discreet member of the Royal Household; late in life, however, he found...
