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06-03-2008, 12:46 PM
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Shand/Shand-Kydd
I was wondering whether or not Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall (nee Shand) was in any way related to Diana, Princess of Wales' step-father, Peter Shand-Kydd.
Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp, started an affair with teh former sheep farmer and heir to a wallpaper fortune, Peter Shand-Kydd. After leaving her family Frances married Peter in 1969. She died in 2003, and he died in 2006. Camilla's father, Bruce, (an army officer and wine merchant) was born in London, to Phillip Shand, and married Rosalind Maud Cubitt in 1946. Coincidentally, after the Shand Kydd's married, they lived in Sussex, where Camilla spent her youth. I realize that surnames really don't mean much of anything, but it is just an interest of mine...
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06-03-2008, 12:52 PM
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Peter Shand-Kydd wasn't just a sheep farmer--he was also the an heir to a wallpaper fortune.
I never really noticed the connection in the names, though. I believe that Shand is a Scottish desent name, though. That would be very interesting if a family connection was discovered between Camilla and Diana.
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06-03-2008, 01:20 PM
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You might want to take a look at this Yahoo! Question/Answers page. Diana, Camilla and Sarah Ferguson are in fact (very) distant cousins since all are descendant from Charles Lennox.
So it was a right guess  even if I doubt the name Shand has got something to do with it.
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06-07-2008, 06:47 PM
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Thank you TheTruth! I hadn't seen that before...
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06-08-2008, 10:39 PM
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I had heard that Peter Shand-Kydd was a distant cousin to Camilla, but they certainly aren't closely related. It is sort of ironic, though...(pensive)
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