Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was a British Army officer who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla.
After the war he became a wine merchant. He was Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of East Sussex from 1974 until 1992 and was a Master of Foxhounds.
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Early life
Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was born in London into an upper-class landed gentry family whose ancestors had moved to England from Scotland.
He was the only son of Philip Morton Shand (1888–1960), an architectural writer and critic (from his first marriage). His father was a close friend of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and whose company, Finmar, imported furniture by Alvar Aalto to the United Kingdom. His mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington (1893–1981), later Mrs. Herbert Charles Tippet.
His 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 was Baroness Howe of Idlicote, wife of former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Prime Minister Lord Howe of Aberavon.