Shân Legge-Bourke

Shân Legge-Bourke

Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke, LVO neé Bailey (born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner.

The only daughter of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, she inherited Glanusk Park upon his death in 1948. She married Capt. William Legge-Bourke (b. 1939), son of Harry Legge-Bourke, in 1964, by whom she has three children:
*Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke (b. 1965), nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry
*Zara Victoria Legge-Bourke (b. 1966), married Capt. Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax in 1988 and has issue
*Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (b. 1972) an officer in the Welsh Guards

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. [cite web | title=The Lady of Glanusk | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/crickhowell/pages/legge_bourke.shtml | accessdate=2007-10-04]

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