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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 · Bruce Middleton Hope Shand's childhood was less than auspicious. Born in January 1917, he was abandoned by his parents aged just three and raised by his grandmother. Educated at Rugby, he joined the Army, initially serving as a second lieutenant in the 12th Royal Lancers and winning a Military Cross in 1940 followed by a second two years later.
When Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was born on 22 January 1917, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Philip Morton Shand, was 29 and his mother, Edith Marguerite Harrington, was 23. He married Lady Rosalind Maud Cubitt on 2 January 1946, in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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Jun 12, 2006 · Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was born on January 22 1917, the son of Philip Morton Shand, a wine writer and architect whose family owned a Glasgow calico business. Morton Shand first married Bruce's ...
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Shand was born in London, the son of Philip Morton Shand (1888–1960), an architectural writer and critic who was a close friend of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and whose company, Finmar, imported furniture by Alvar Aalto into the United Kingdom. His mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington (1893–1981), later Mrs. Charles Tippett. Bruce Shand's par...
In the Second World War, he served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force. The 12th Lancers were equipped with lightly armed Morris armoured cars in a reconnaissance role. The regiment spent six months at Foncquevillers during the Phoney War, then advanced to the River Dyle and retreated in the face of the German blitzkrieg. Shand won...
Shand returned to England in 1945, declining an opportunity to continue service in the Army. On 2 January 1946, he married the Hon Rosalind Maud Cubitt, daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe and the former Sonia Keppel. They had two daughters, Camilla and Annabel, and a son, Mark. He had many business interests, but was most notably a partner in Block...
May 8, 2020 · Major Shand returned to Britain after escaping capture in 1945 eventually retiring from the Army in 1947. In 2006, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Egypt. At Major Shand’s request, Her Royal Highness laid flowers on the graves of her father’s two crewmen, Sergeant Charles Francis and Corporal Edward Plant, who had been killed in 1942.
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The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) welcomed Her Majesty to their Barracks in Catterick Garrison where she was able to view, for the first time, a 12th Lancer tunic worn by her father, Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand while serving with the Regiment in North Africa during the Second World War. She also saw a handwritten letter from her father to a member of the Derbyshire Yeomanry in 1942.
