Shân Legge-Bourke

Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner.

The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited Glanusk Park upon his death in 1948. She married Capt William Legge-Bourke (1939–2009; son of Maj Sir Harry Legge-Bourke), a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely, in 1964 and they have three children:

• Tiggy Legge-Bourke (married name Tiggy Pettifer; b. 1965), nanny to Princes William and Harry.
• Zara Drax (Zara Victoria Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax; née Legge-Bourke; b. 1966), married Capt Richard Drax in 1988 and has issue; they later divorced. Drax is the grandson of Adm The Hon Sir Reginald Drax, the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany and he is also the grandson of Lt Gen The Lord Weeks and is now Conservative MP for South Dorset. Drax has continued to use her married name since her divorce.^[1]
• Capt Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (b. 1972) an officer in the Welsh Guards, former Aide-de-Camp to The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and Page of Honour to The Queen between 1985 and 1987.

In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Powys. She was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk in 2006.

A Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO), she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Daily Mail – Zara - on Big Brother. (via High Beam)
2. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61092. p. N4. 31 December 2014.