Eleanor Legge-Bourke

Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke (born 1980) is a British public relations executive and television personality.

Background

Half English and half Portuguese, Eleanor Legge-Bourke is the daughter of Heneage Legge-Bourke and Maria Clara de Sá-Carneiro.[1][2]

Her father, Heneage Legge-Bourke, is senior director, financial engineering, with the French bank Natixis (and before that with its predecessor IXIS Corporate Investment Bank), specializing in property and renewable energy finance.[3] He was a Page of Honour to HM the Queen in 1963-1964. Her grandfather, Sir Henry Legge-Bourke (19141973), was member of parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers.[4] Her other grandfather, Vasco de Sá-Carneiro, lived in Lisbon.[1]

Career

Legge-Bourke’s main career is in public relations, and has taken her as far afield as Kazakhstan.[5][6]

In a different direction, she was a contestant on Nice People in 2003, a French television version of the show Big Brother.[7][8] In May, 2003, she hit the headlines with stories of on-screen goings-on with another contestant, Prosper Masquelier, leading her cousin Tiggy Legge-Bourke to comment “She is a very, very good girl and I am devoted to her. I am backing her all the way.”[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke at thepeerage.com (accessed 7 February 2008)
  2. Mosley, C. (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 1, p. 1039
  3. Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Geneva, 29 June 2005 at unece.org (accessed 7 February 2008)
  4. LEGGE-BOURKE, Sir Edward Alexander Henry in Who Was Who 1971–1980 (London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint: ISBN 0-7136-3227-5)
  5. Eleanor Legge-Bourke, Kazakhstan PR/reporter at naymz.com (accessed 7 February 2008)
  6. Major league energy exporter blazes new economy trails at universalnews-us.com (accessed 7 February 2008)
  7. Sun offers £50k for Big Brother sex by Ciar Byrne at MediaGuardian online, dated May 20 2003 (accessed 7 February 2008)
  8. Eleanor Legge-Bourke at imdb.com (accessed 7 February 2008)
  9. Tiggy shock at TV frolic, article by Charles Rae in ‘’The Sun’’ dated 13 May 2003 (accessed 7 February 2008)

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