Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall the patron, president and a member of numerous charities and organisations. Since 1994, she has taken action on osteoporosis, earning honours and awards. She has also raised awareness in areas including rape and sexual abuse, literacy, animal welfare and poverty. Camilla Rosemary Shand was born at King's College Hospital, London, on 17 July 1947. She 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. Her parents were British Army officer turned businessman Major Bruce Shand (1917–2006) and his wife, Rosalind ("née" Cubitt; 1921–1994).
Descendants of Charles II of England 12th Duke of Northumberland, through Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth Samantha Cameron, wife of Prime Minister David Cameron, through Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy and Lady Mary Tudor Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, through Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, through Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond Kit Harington, actor, through Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, through Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, through Charlotte