Mark Shand
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| Born | Mark Roland Shand 28 June 1951 London, England |
| Died | 23 April 2014 (aged 62) New York City, U.S. |
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| Children | Ayesha Lalitha Shand |
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Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was an English travel writer and conservationist, as well as the brother of Queen Camilla. 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.