Bruce Shand
| Bruce Middleton Hope Shand | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 January 1917 London, England |
| Died | 11 June 2006 (aged 89) Stourpaine, Dorset |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 British Army
|
| Years of service | 1937–1947 |
| Rank | Major |
| Commands held | HQ Squadron, Half Squadron of 12th Lancers, "C" Squadron |
| Battles/wars | Second World War |
| Awards | MC and bar |
| Relations | The Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (spouse) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (daughter) Annabel Elliot (daughter) Mark Shand (son) |
| Other work |
Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex Vice-Lieutenant of East Sussex Exon and Adjutant of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard |
Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand MC and bar (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.
Shand was born in London into a minor (gentry) family. His ancestors emigrated to England from Scotland. He is 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 Great Britain. His mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington (1893–1981), later Mrs. Herbert Charles Tippet. Bruce Shand's parents divorced when he was three years old. His father went on to remarry three times. Shand did not see his father again until he was 18. One of his two half-sisters is Baroness Howe of Idlicote, wife of Lord Howe.
Shand's mother remarried Herbert Charles Tippet, a golf course designer. Contrary to some newspaper reports, young Shand was not abandoned by his mother and stepfather but was taken to live with them in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in 1921, a passage of his life that he omitted from his autobiography, giving the erroneous impression of having been abandoned. After visiting England in June 1923, Bruce and his mother returned to the US in September 1923 with the stated intent (according to US immigration records) of residing permanently in the United States and taking US citizenship. When he next returned to Britain it was to begin his education, organised and paid for by his grandparents. His mother and stepfather returned to Britain in 1927, then moved to Ireland in the 1930s. His stepfather died at Rye in 1947 and his mother died in Cooden Beach, Sussex, in 1981.
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