Shân Legge-Bourke

The Honourable Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the 2nd Lord Lieutenant of Powys.

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[1] (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 Pettifer (née Legge-Bourke; b. 1965), nanny to Princes William and Harry.
• Zara Victoria Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (née Legge-Bourke; b. 1966), married Capt. Richard Drax in 1988 and has issue; marriage later dissolved. Richard Drax is the grandson of Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Drax, the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany, the grandson of Lieutenant-General The Lord Weeks, and Conservative MP for South Dorset. Zara Drax has continued to use her married name since her divorce.[2]
• 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.[3] She was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk in 2006.

Already Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO),[4] she was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours.[5]

References

1. "William Legge-Bourke dies aged 69". Wales Online. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
2. Daily Mail – Zara - on Big Brother. (via High Beam)
3. "No. 55227". The London Gazette. 17 August 1998. p. 8943.
4. "No. 51365". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1988. p. 4.
5. "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N4.

External links

• Shân Legge-Bourke interview on AP Archive

Honorary titles
Preceded by Mervyn Leigh Bourdillon	Lord Lieutenant of Powys 1998–2018	Succeeded by Tia C Jones