Paramedics could only confirm what she already knew. Though police briefly treated the case as suspicious, investigators later ruled it a heartbreaking accident: a slip, a fall, a life ended in an instant. His death has shaken his daughter, Lady Kathryn Brudenell Bruce, and a wide circle of friends who knew him as a decorated Royal Horse Guards captain and steadfast father. In the end, he is remembered for quiet courage and loyalty, a man whose final act was an instinctive reach for the small life he cherished.
