Richard Brandram

Richard Campbell Andrew Brandram, MC (5 August 1911 – 28 March 1994) was a major in the British Army who married Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark in 1947, which united him with most of the royal families in Europe. Biography Richard was born on 5 August 1911 at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England. Richard's father, Richard Andrew Brandram, head of a landed gentry family, was the founder of the Bickley Park School in Kent, while his mother, Maud Campbell Blaker, was a housewife. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a keen rugby union player, having played for the University, Blackheath, then one of the top sides in England and he also represented Kent in the county championship. In the summer of 1933 he was part of the Cambridge Vandals combined cricket and rugby tour to Canada and the United States, this was the first ever recorded tour of a British rugby team to either country. Touring as a rugby back division specialist he scored nine tries and was second top scorer.