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 (1914–1973), 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 2 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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