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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 .
Queen Camilla's father, Bruce Shand, was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany - and earned a Military Cross for valour.
Jun 11, 2006 · Exon and Adjutant of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC and bar, DL, (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army. He is best known as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
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.
Feb 20, 2021 · By the early 1970s, Bruce was appointed Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, which is how the Shand family became part of the "in crowd," mingling with royalty.
- Libby-Jane Charleston
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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Feb 3, 2021 · Camilla’s father, who died in 2006, was Major Bruce Shand, a decorated war hero who was captured and held as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. The duchess opened up about her...
