22 Facts About Camillagate

Camillagate is the patron, the president, or a member of numerous charities and organisations.

Camillagate grew up in The Laines—an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex—and a three-storey house in South Kensington, her family's second home.

Camillagate's parents were British Army officer-turned-businessman Major Bruce Shand and his wife The Hon.

Camillagate has a younger sister, Annabel Elliot, and had a younger brother, Mark Shand.

Camillagate's mother Rosalind was a charity worker, who volunteered at the Chailey Heritage Foundation in the 1960s and 1970s located at North Chailey, East Sussex, while her father had various business interests after retiring from the army.

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Camillagate grew up with dogs and cats, and, at a young age, learnt how to ride a pony by joining Pony Club camps, going on to win rosettes at community gymkhanas.

Camillagate left Dumbrells at the age of 10 to attend Queen's Gate School in Queen's Gate, South Kensington.

Camillagate later moved into a larger flat in Belgravia, which she shared with her landlady Lady Moyra Campbell, the daughter of the Duke of Abercorn, and later with Virginia Carington, daughter of the politician Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington.

Camillagate was reportedly fired from the job after "she came in late having been to a dance".

Camillagate became a passionate horse-rider, and frequently attended equestrian activities.

Camillagate had a passion for painting, which eventually led to her private tutoring with an artist, although most of her work "ended up in the bin".

Camillagate sat in the royal box behind the Queen for one of the concerts at Buckingham Palace.

Camillagate is the patron of a non-British body, the P G Wodehouse Society of The Netherlands.

Camillagate is an honorary member of other patronages and in February 2012, she was elected a bencher of Gray's Inn.

Camillagate is the first female chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and only member of the royal family to hold the post since it was created in 1860.

Camillagate became patron of the charity in 1997 and was appointed president in 2001 in a highly publicised event, accompanied by the Prince of Wales.

Camillagate continues to attend conferences around the world, and meets with health experts to further discuss the disease.

Camillagate is the patron of the National Literacy Trust and other literacy charities.

Camillagate is the patron of Emmaus UK, and in 2013 during her solo trip to Paris, she went to see the work done by the charity in that city.

Camillagate is a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, recipient of the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Camillagate has Dutch, Scottish, Colonial American, French and French–Canadian ancestors.

Camillagate is descended from several American Loyalists through Sophia, such as Ephraim Jones, born in Massachusetts in 1750, who fought with the British during the American Revolution, was captured at the Battle of Saratoga, and later settled in Upper Canada.