Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the second Lord Lieutenant of Powys.
The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited the Glanusk Park estate of some 18,000 acres on his death in 1948. In 1964 she married Captain William Legge-Bourke[1] (1939–2009; son of Major Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely), and they have three children:
- Tiggy Pettifer (née Legge-Bourke; born 1965), nanny to Princes William and Harry.
- Zara Victoria Gordon-Lennox (née Legge-Bourke; born 1966), first wife of Richard Drax.
- Captain Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (born 1972) an officer in the Welsh Guards, former aide-de-camp to Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and page of honour to HM the Queen between 1985 and 1987.
In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Powys.[2] In 2006 she was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk.[3]
Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1988,[4] in the 2015 New Year Honours Legge-Bourke was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO).[5]
She was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Royal in January 2024.[6]
References
- ^ "William Legge-Bourke dies aged 69". Wales Online. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "No. 55227". The London Gazette. 17 August 1998. p. 8943.
- ^ TV cameras show the life of our leading county lady, Wales Online, 5 September 2006
- ^ "No. 51365". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1988. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N4.
- ^ Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024
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