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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.
- 1937–1947
- Major
8 mag 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.
22 apr 2024 · Major Shand, who died in June 2006, was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1937. Major Bruce Shand and Rosalind Cubitt, the parents of the Queen, on their wedding day in 1946.
11 giu 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.
20 dic 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...
- Hannah Furness
- Royal Correspondent
5 mag 2023 · Suo padre, Bruce Shand, è stato un eroe della Seconda guerra mondiale, mentre sua madre, Rosalind Cubitt, era figlia di Lord Ashcombe e nipote di Alice Keppel, l’amante ufficiale di...
22 apr 2024 · Commissioned in 1937, The Queen’s late father, Major Bruce Shand, served with the 12th Lancers during World War II. He won a Military Cross during the withdrawal to Dunkirk in 1940 and later again in 1942 during the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa.
