Mark Shand

Mark Shand
Born
Mark Roland Shand

(1951-06-28)28 June 1951
London, England
Died23 April 2014(2014-04-23) (aged 62)
New York City, U.S.
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(m. 1990; div. 2009)​
ChildrenAyesha Lalitha Shand
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Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was a British travel writer and conservationist, as well as the brother of Queen Camilla.[1][2][3] 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. His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Travel Writer of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 1992. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002.[4]

  1. ^ "The Elephant Man". W magazine. March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  2. ^ "The Duchess of Cornwall Background". royal.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mark Shand is the Elephant man was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Elephant Family". elephantfamily.org. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.