Mark Shand

Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was a British travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centered on the survival of Elephants. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002.

Family, education and marriage

Shand was born on 28 June 1951, as the son of Major Bruce Shand (1917–2006) and his wife the Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921–1994), daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe and the former Sonia Rosemary Keppel. He was the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Annabel Elliot.

Shand was educated first at St Ronan's School in Kent and then Milton Abbey School in Dorset. He was expelled from Milton Abbey for allegedly smoking cannabis. As a result, his father sent him to Australia to make a living on his own, where he had numerous jobs including working as a jackaroo on a station and a guard at an opal mine. He later returned to London and worked as a porter at Sotheby's, subsequently, he and his friend Harry Fane, the son of the 15th Earl of Westmorland started a business of selling Cartier jewellery for a while.

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The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
There are now not one but two elephants, in memory of Queen Camilla’s late brother the adventurer and environmentalist Mark Shand, a church spire and a giant toad ... and environmentalist Mark Shand.
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The Daily Mail 12 Mar 2025
On International Women's Day last week, Ayesha, the daughter of Camilla's late brother, Mark Shand, revealed that she is stepping away from her role of eight years to enter the beauty world as the US VP of marketing at Trinny London.
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I can disclose that Woodall, 61, has recruited Queen Camilla's niece Ayesha Shand, daughter of Her Majesty's late brother Mark Shand ... Mark Shand and daughter Ayesha attend the Faberge Big Egg Hunt party in 2012.
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Guwahati ... The last of the Rajas of Gauripur was Prakritish Barua ... Queen of the Elephants is the title of a book written about her by British travel writer and naturalist Mark Roland Shand, published in 1996 ... .
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Queen reveals tough time with reading at night

The Daily Telegraph 06 Mar 2025
The Queen fell in love with reading at a young age, inspiring a lifelong love of literature that she has partly attributed to Mark Shand, her late father, who frequently read to her.
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