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Bruce Shand. 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, and thus the father-in-law of Charles III. After the war he became a wine merchant.
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...
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 around...
Apr 22, 2023 · Camilla's parents: Rosalind Cubitt and Bruce Shand. Keystone // Getty Images. British army officer Major Bruce Shand of the 12th Royal Lancers, marries Rosalind Cubitt, daughter of Roland...
May 8, 2020 · Major Bruce Shand M.C. was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1937. Described in his citation for his second Military Cross as a leader of “the first order”, Major Shand served with honour in the Army for ten years.
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...
Apr 22, 2024 · Major Bruce Shand and Rosalind Cubitt, the parents of the Queen, on their wedding day in 1946. When the Germans invaded on May 10, 1940, he entered Belgium as part of the British...
