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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.
Jun 11, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand, father of the Duchess of Cornwall, was a war hero, wine merchant and huntsman. He kept silent about his daughter's affair with Prince Charles and supported her marriage to him.
Jun 11, 2006 · The former Cavalry officer and wine merchant passed away at his home in Dorset in 2006. He was the father of the Duchess of Cornwall and had a distinguished military career in World War II.
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 himself...
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...
May 8, 2020 · Major Bruce Shand M.C. was a soldier and a prisoner of war in the Second World War. The Duchess of Cornwall shares extracts from his book Previous Engagements, based on his letters and diary, for VE Day.
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....
