Who are the Shand Kydd family?

The Shand Kydd is the family late Princess Diana is from. Peter Shand Kydd was the stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, and an heir to the wallpaper fortune built by his father, Norman Shand Kydd.

His mother was Frances Madelein Foy. He was half-brother to champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd who was the husband of Christiana Muriel Duncan, sister of Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan.

By his first wife, Shand Kydd had three children. Their elder son, Adam Shand Kydd, was born in 1954 and became a novelist, therefore dying in Cambodia in 2004.

John Shand Kydd, known as Johnie, was born in 1959, and is a renowned photographer, with more than 70 works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.