His company imported Alvar Aalto's furniture to Britain, and he counted among his circle such leading architects as Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Wells Coates. He is best known as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. The battle of El Alamein was raging and, promoted to major, he was ordered to slip through the enemy's retreating frontline on a reconnoitre. His mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington (1893–1981), later Mrs. Charles Tippett. Major Bruce Shand. He managed to withdraw a group of the 6th Rajputana Rifles and organised the evacuation of 20 armoured cars, which would otherwise have fallen into enemy hands. This year I celebrate being in a law office in Salt Lake City, Utah for 40 years. My name is Bruce Shand. Bruce Shand's parents divorced when he was three years old. During more than a decade of lurid headlines, there were rumours of confrontations between Shand and Charles over Camilla's status, before the couple married in April 2005. Conversely, throughout the divorce from Princess Diana, he was said to have been a tower of strength to both Charles and Camilla. I have concentrated my practice on a broad range of legal services effecting older … Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand MC & Bar DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army. 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. Typically, his memoir does not mention the MC, though the citation spoke of his "skill and great daring" and how, by "the fearless manoeuvring of his troop, he covered the withdrawal of a column in the face of fire from four enemy tanks".By 1942 Shand was in North Africa. His father went on to remarry three times, but he did not see his father again until he was 18.
Heading down an escarpment, he was confronted by a German motorised column, which engaged his men in heavy fire. His marriage to Edith Marguerite Harrington ended in divorce when Bruce was three.
When he next returned to Britain it was to begin his education, organised and paid for by his grandparents. Charles grew "very fond" of his father-in-law, admiring his courage, wit and impeccable manners.Shand's father, Philip Morton Shand, was an architectural writer and critic, and an authority on food and wine. One of his tw… He went on to Sandhurst, was commissioned in the 12th Lancers as a second lieutenant in 1937, and indulged his interest in hunting and polo.In his self-deprecating memoir, Previous Engagements (1990), Shand recalled how he went to war in 1939 wishing he could have emulated a young officer from his regiment who had set off to fight the Boers in a hansom cab, having been at a splendid party in London the night before. He was vice lord lieutenant of East Sussex (1974-92), a deputy lieutenant of the former county of Sussex and joint master of the Southdown fox hounds (1956-75).His wife died in 1994; he is survived by two daughters and a son.Camilla's father, cool under fire - military and matrimonial Major Bruce Shand was an officer in the British Army and fought in World War II. There was a strong bond between father and daughter, and Shand could not tolerate Camilla being treated shoddily.One reported instance of his intervention was in 1993, after the disclosure of intimate taped phone calls between the lovers. The citation to his second MC said he had constantly proved himself a cavalry leader of "the first order". 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. He pulled back with his men to the coast, and narrowly avoided capture before evacuation from Dunkirk. He was sent to Rugby school, which he found oppressive, but developed a love of horses and riding. Besides of his excellent career in the service line, he is best remembered as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.