Nicholas Brandram, 44, grandson of Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, later known as Lady Katherine Brandram, has been found dead at his home in west London.
The Metropolitan Police said Brandram was found unconscious at his home in Chiswick on the evening of Tuesday, 15 September. Police officers and London Ambulance Service paramedics arrived at the scene at 19:12, but the 44-year-old was pronounced dead.
“His next of kin have been informed. At this stage, his death is being treated as unexpected, but there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances,” the Metropolitan Police said, according to the British Mirror.
His name had not been released while the investigation was under way, but the authorities have now allowed it to be made public following his death.
His involvement in the case in which a woman was pushed in front of a bus
The “Putney Pusher” case attracted enormous publicity in Britain. In May 2017, a man jogging on Putney Bridge in London was captured on CCTV pushing a woman towards the road, just as a bus was approaching.
The bus driver managed to react at the last moment and avoid the woman, who escaped what could have been a very serious injury.
The footage went around the world and the unidentified perpetrator was given the nickname “Putney Pusher” by the British media.
Despite years of investigation and the huge publicity surrounding the case, the identity of the man seen in the footage had never been conclusively established. Brandram had been investigated as a suspect in connection with the high-profile case.
No suspect was ever charged, and the investigation was closed in 2018, before new information led to Brandram’s arrest this summer. Just last week, detectives announced that Brandram had been released under investigation while further investigative enquiries were under way.
Who was Nicholas Brandram?
Brandram’s father, Paul Brandram, was the only child of Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark and Major Richard Campbell Andrew Brandram, who served in the British Army during the Second World War.
Princess Katherine was the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a first cousin of Prince Philip. She was born on 4 May 1913 and died on 2 October 2007. She was the sixth child and third daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia, and the sister of three Kings of Greece and a Queen of Romania. In 1941, following the German invasion of Greece, she left with her brother Paul and his wife Frederica for Crete, and from there travelled to Egypt and South Africa. Katherine worked as a nurse at a hospital in Cape Town. For four years, she received no news at all from her sister Helen, Queen Mother of Romania.
At the end of the war, she returned to England and in 1947 married Major Richard Brandram (5 August 1911 – 5 April 1994), a rugby player. The couple met aboard the ship Ascania, when they were both returning to England from Alexandria. Brandram was serving in Baghdad.
Like his father, Nicholas had a successful career in the City, working for leading stockbroking firm Killik & Co and Israeli bank Bank Leumi, before moving to HSBC, where he managed the assets of wealthy private clients.
He had also served as a captain in the British Army and had been deployed on missions in Iraq, Bosnia and Afghanistan.
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