Richard Campbell Andrew Brandram, MC (5 August 1911 – 28 March 1994) was an officer in the British Army who saw active service in Italy during the Second World War, then served with the British Military Mission to the Iraqi Army. In later life, he was a Baltic Exchange shipbroker.
He is best known for marrying Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark in 1947.
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Early life
Brandram was born on 5 August 1911 at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England. His father, Richard Andrew Brandram of Bickley, the head of a gentry family, was the founder and retired headmaster of a prep school, 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, then for the Kent R.F.U. in the county championships. In 1931, he played cricket for a team called Band of Brothers. In the summer of 1933, Brandram was part of a combined cricket and rugby tour by the Cambridge Vandals to Canada and the United States, which 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. Soon he was playing for Blackheath F.C., at the time one of the top rugby clubs in England. The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reported in 1935 that in his Cambridge days Brandram had "never seriously threatened to win another Blue for Tonbridge", but that in 1934 he had played outstandingly well for Blackheath and in the present season was "proving a very menacing person". He was still playing for the club in 1937.