NOTBorn on July 17, 1947 in London, Camilla Rosemary Shand does not belong to the aristocracy, she is part of this upper middle class who rub shoulders with the nobility without having the titles. His parents are well off without being rich. The father, Bruce Shand, is a wine retailer in Mayfair, the most exclusive district of the capital. He was commander of the Queen’s Lancers, an elite regiment, and twice decorated in World War II. A fan of hunting with hounds as it should be, he is also a yeoman, a purely honorary title of bodyguard to the sovereign. The mother, Rosalind, is the daughter of Baron Ashcombe. The family owns a property in Plumpton, a postcard village in Sussex, where Camilla, her sister Annabel and her brother Mark spent an idyllic childhood…
Giddens Joe/PA Photos/ABACA – Tim Rooke/REX Shutterst/SIPA – Ben Cawthra/SIPA – Getty Images/AFP