Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall fondly remembered her late brother chasing her with a cricket bat when they were younger.
The Duchess honoured her brother, Mark Shand – fondly known as Shandy-Ba – at a memorial event at the late travel writer and conservationist’s school, where they have dedicated an all-weather pitch to his memory.
Speaking at Saint Ronan’s School in Hawkhurst, Kent, Camilla shared: "This is where his love of sport started, he adored cricket. I’m told he was very good-tempered, at home he had a foul temper and chased both me and my sister round the garden with his cricket bat – but it was all smiles again.
"Wherever Mark is today, he would be so proud what this all -weather pitch has been named after him. I think he would be rather surprised too because although he adored Saint Ronan’s – and said it was the best school he’d ever been to – he didn’t like school very much."
Mark tragically passed away on April 23, 2014 after he fell and hit his head outside the Rose Bar, inside the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
After his death, The Mark Shand Memorial Fund was established to raise money to save the Asian elephant.
Camilla fondly remembers her late brother Mark Shand
