Despite winning a Military Cross for valour, Major Bruce Shand was a modest and self-effacing man who chose not to speak about his wartime exploits until his grandchildren were born. It took his ...

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.

A guest room is to be provided for her elderly father, Major Bruce Shand. The Queen Mother's former home, refurbished at a £4.6million cost to the taxpayer, will in the next few weeks become the ...