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MP for the

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), and they have three children: * Tiggy Pettifer (née Alexandra Shân Legge-Bourke; born 1965), nanny to Princes

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and Harry. * Zara Victoria Gordon-Lennox (née Legge-Bourke; born 1966), first wife of

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. * Captain Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (born 1972) an officer in the

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, former aide-de-camp to Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and

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to HM the Queen between 1985 and 1987. In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Powys. In 2006 she was the subject of a

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series entitled ''The Lady of Glanusk''. Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1988, in the

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Legge-Bourke was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO). She was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the

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in January 2024.Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024

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Shân Legge-Bourke interview on AP Archive
1943 births Living people Shan Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Lord-lieutenants of Powys Daughters of barons 20th-century Welsh landowners 21st-century Welsh landowners 21st-century British women landowners 20th-century British women landowners Welsh women landowners {{Wales-bio-stub