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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 .
Apr 22, 2024 · Despite winning a Military Cross for valour, Major Bruce Shand was a modest and self-effacing man who chose not to speak about his wartime exploits until his grandchildren were born.
During his lifetime Shand was widely recognized as the greatest English classical guitarist and composer, but his music fell into obscurity soon after his death in 1924. His surviving output of 220 works reveals a guitar composer of great originality and charm who had a gift for spinning infectious melodies.
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 17, 2006 · ‘Look here,’ Shand called out from the back of the party, ‘I was a prisoner here, you know.’. I used to see him at the Sussex Club, an admirably pointless institution which drinks ‘prosperity...
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Jun 9, 2023 · By Lydia Starbuck. 9th June 2023. Queen Camilla has taken on a new military role and revealed that it’s one her father, Major Bruce Shand, always hoped would come her way. Her Majesty has...
