Her father, Bruce Shand, was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany - and earned a Military Cross for valour. Major Shand, who died in June 2006, was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in ...

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).