Arms: Azure a boar’s head couped Argent armed and langued Or, and on a chief engrailed Argent a cross crosslet fitchy Sable between two stars Gules.

Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand MC & Bar DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army. He is best known as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Shand was born in London into an upper class family whose ancestors had moved to England from Scotland. He was the son of Philip Morton Shand (1888–1960), an architectural writer.

The artwork is a rendering by John Hamilton Gaylor.

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