BIRTHDATE: July 17, 1947
PARENTS: Major Bruce Shand and the Hon. Rosalind Shand.
SIBLINGS: Annabel Elliot and Mark Shand (Camilla was the oldest)
CHILDREN: Tom and Laura. Prince Charles is Tom's godfather.
Her father spent 16 years in the Queen's Household as the quaintly named Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of the Yeoman of the Guard.
Genealogical coincidence: her great-grandmother was the famous Alice Keppel, who enjoyed a passionate affair with Prince Charles's great-great-grandfather King Edward VII.
She had a conventional upper-class upbringing: old houses, old furniture, old clothes, old wine and old money were the backdrop to her life.
Her school record was distinguished only by her being named the girl most people wanted to be like.
First met Prince Charles in the early 1970's.
