Overview

• On May 31, Queen Camilla issued a statement marking the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo alongside The King.
• She recounted her father’s memories of wading to a cement ship and shared vivid excerpts from his memoirs to illustrate the civilian rescue effort.
• Major Bruce Shand served in the 12th Royal Lancers, earned the Military Cross for Dunkirk and North Africa actions, and survived severe wounds and capture at El Alamein.
• Camilla’s appointment as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Lancers fulfills her father’s lifelong wish for her association with his regiment.
• Operation Dynamo, also called the Miracle of Dunkirk, saw over 338,000 allied troops evacuated from Northern France between May 26 and June 4, 1940.