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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 · 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.
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.
Apr 22, 2024 · Camilla, the Queen Consort, met the Royal Lancers as its Colonel-in-Chief, where her father Major Bruce Shand served in World War Two. She inspected the regiment, awarded medals, and viewed the tunic and letter of her late father.
Dec 20, 2021 · Major Shand was an officer in the British Army, winning two Military Crosses in the Second World War. On Nov 6, 1942, while in Egypt, his vehicle was destroyed, his...
- Hannah Furness
- Royal Correspondent
Jun 13, 2006 · Maj. Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, died Sunday at home in Dorset, on England’s south coast, her spokesman said. The cause of death was not disclosed, but Shand had...
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...
