Queen Camilla has revealed how her love of reading began as a child - when her father would read bedtime stories to her. The King's wife, 76, held a reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the ...

Bruce Shand was born on January 22, 1917 in London England, to Philip Morton Shand (b. 1888, d. 1960), an architectural writer and critic, and Edith Marguerite Harrington (b. 1893, d. 1981).

She has official connections to the armed forces, as well as an emotional closeness due to the military service of her war hero late father Major Bruce Shand, who died aged 89 in June 2006.