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“It was horrid.
“I couldn’t have survived it without my family.”
And her family, through thick and thin, was by her side.
Sadly, their brother, Mark Shand, died at the young age of 62 in April 2014.
This is a look at his life and the accident that cut it short.
Camilla was the eldest of the three, born to her parents in 1947.
“We had this enchanted childhood.
“We didn’t have nannies.
All our friends growing up would immediately be drawn to my mother.
She was completely straightforward and one of the warmest, kindest people.”
I think it was a very simple childhood,” she revealed.
“The awful thing is, I suppose I thought life was always going to be like that … As far as I remember it was perfect.”
“The odd thing for that sort of family is they were brought up in a completely unsnobbish way.
“It’s no different to her to talk to a duke or a dustman.
And Mark was the same.”
His mother adored him.
His sisters adored him.”
“Nobody in those days knew anything about osteoporosis.
It can’t be that painful,'” Camilla revealed of Rosalind’s illness.
It affects your stomach and lungs, so her breathing became very bad.
She couldn’t eat much food and was in agony the whole time.”
She gave up in the end."
It was a perfect suggestion, as Mark found his true calling amid his adventures.
Joined by friend William Waldorf Astor III, Mark was given about $120 and a plane ticket.
He set off to work as a sheep farmer in Australia.
“Major Shand was the archetypal English gentleman with decorations, good manners, impeccable dress.
That was quite a hallmark for Mark to live up to.”
Harry, however, made a bad business deal, and Mark was left with nothing to inherit.
“Mark was allocated to come and work for me.
He didn’t come in very often.
“I came upstairs one day and there he was chopping cocaine on my desk.
And the senior director came in and asked, ‘Mark, what are you doing?’
‘Oh, I’m separating talcum powder.’
The man believed him and walked out.”
As you’ve got the option to expect, they were caught and told to never return.
Of course, he wouldn’t be tied down for years.
Helvin reflected on their relationship and how he tormented her from day one.
“He was impulsive, emotional and open hearted.
He had the most beautiful body I’d ever seen.
In fact, some would argue that Mark took some of the heat off of Camilla.
“He was looking for something,” friend William Astor toldVanity Fairof Mark’s life with Tara.
“And it wasn’t until he met an elephant that he found it, and redeemed himself.”
“Travels on My Elephant” was eventually rereleased in 2012.
Their wedding was a showstopper, and they ended up going on a honeymoon that lasted four months.
Sadly, it quickly fell apart.
“Very dark, very miserable, very isolated.
Mark set off traveling, and I was alone with this baby.
I had had a terrible birth, so I had to be operated on.
And I was very traumatized.
One day I decided I’ve got to react.
If you want to join us, here’s the plane ticket.'”
Even then, Clio claimed that her husband’s heart simply wasn’t in it.
“I couldn’t live with Mark in that indifferent way.
It was too painful,” she said.
“He got very very obsessed by his charity, Elephant Family.
Which was fantastic for him … but our marriage just broke to pieces.”
They eventually divorced in 2009.
His head was the first thing to hit the pavement, and he was unconscious immediately.
Camilla, Queen Consort, was in Scotland at the time when she was told the news.
Annabel Elliot, meanwhile, was with her brother at the hospital.
She later recalled the doctor telling her, “Your brother is 99 1/2 percent brain dead.”
With happy memories and all my love.”
