Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Pettifer (née Legge-Bourke; born 1 April 1965) is a British former

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and companion to

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and

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. She was a

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Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...

(then

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) from 1993 to 1999. She has used her married name since her marriage to Charles Pettifer in 1999.

Background

Legge-Bourke is the daughter of William Legge-Bourke (1939–2009), who served in the

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. After taking a degree at

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, her father then became a

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and was deputy lieutenant of

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from 1997 until his death. Legge-Bourke's mother,

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Shân Legge-Bourke Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the second Lord Lieutenant of Powys. The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited the Glanusk Pa ...

(born 1943), was the only child of

Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk Wilfred Russell Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (27 June 1891 – 12 January 1948), was a British peer and soldier. Glanusk was the son of Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, and succeeded his father as third Baron in 1928. He achieved the rank of colo ...

(1891–1948), a soldier who became a

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in the

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and also served as

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. When Shân Bailey's father died in 1948, she and her mother inherited his estate at Glanusk Park, near

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, while his peerage went to a cousin. Shân Legge-Bourke was appointed a

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to the

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in 1987, was

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in 1991, and was the

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until 2018. Tiggy Legge-Bourke's paternal grandfather,

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Harry Legge-Bourke Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, (16 May 1914 – 21 May 1973), was a British politician, and a Member of Parliament for Isle of Ely from 1945 until his death in 1973. Early life Legge-Bourke was born as the only child of Lt. Ni ...

(1914–1973), was a

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for the

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from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the

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backbenchers. His death in 1973 led to a

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won by the

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. She is a cousin of the public relations executive and television personality Eleanor Legge-Bourke, a contestant of '' Nice People'' in 2003, which is a French Television version of the show ''

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''. Legge-Bourke was reported in 1994 to be fond of

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and long walks in the country.

Early life

Brought up at Glanusk Park, a estate in Wales, Tiggy Legge-Bourke was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot,Who's working for who now... Tiggy and the Spook in ''

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'' #93 for 6–19 November 1999 online at mail-archive.com. Retrieved 18 February 2008. which she left with four

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,''Second Front: Pass Notes 518, Tiggy Legge-Bourke'' in ''

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'' (London, England) dated 8 November 1994, p. 3. and the

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at Rougemont in Switzerland, a

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also attended by

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. She has a sister and a brother, Zara and Harry. In 1985 Zara (b. 1966) married Captain Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, known as Richard Drax: Princess Anne's daughter Zara was a bridesmaid. The marriage ended in divorce in 1997. They had two daughters. She married for a second time in 2003 (as his 2nd wife) Angus Gordon Lennox, of the

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, and now lives at

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. (Her first husband Richard Drax, now an MP, remarried twice and has had two more children.) Legge-Bourke's brother Harry, born in 1972, was a

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between 1985 and 1987 and became an officer in the

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. He married Iona Maclean in 2000, and had one son (Lachlan or Lochy, b. 2003, now a

like his father, grand-uncle and great-grandfather) and one daughter. Lachlan was part of the Queen's entourage at the 2016

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. In 1966, Legge-Bourke's grandmother Margaret Glenusk, widowed in 1948, married secondly William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle VC KG, who had been

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before leaving to set up her own nursery school in

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, called Mrs Tiggywinkle's. In 1993, shortly after

Charles, Prince of Wales Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...

, and his wife, Diana, Princess of Wales had separated, Charles hired Legge-Bourke as nanny to their two sons. As the royal nanny, she soon began to make headlines. Early controversy came when she said scornfully of the Princess of Wales's attitude towards her sons: "I give them what they need at this stage, fresh air, a rifle and a horse. She gives them a tennis racket and a bucket of popcorn at the movies". It was also considered to be a gaffe when Legge-Bourke referred to William and Harry as "my babies". She often went with the princes on holidays.Tiggy enjoys a right royal wedding
dated 16 October 1999, online at bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2008. A heavy smoker, she was said to be able to smoke even while skiing, and was criticized by Diana for smoking near her sons. In 1996, at the age of thirteen, Prince William, avoiding a difficult choice, asked both of his parents not to attend

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's Fourth of June celebrations, the high point of the school's year. However, they were both reported to be taken aback when he invited Legge-Bourke to attend in their place. Early in 1997, she resigned, but she returned to the royal household only a few months later. On 18 July 1997, while out of Charles's service, she attended the fiftieth-birthday party he threw for

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. She helped to comfort the princes after their mother's death in a road accident in

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on 31 August 1997.New Year's Honours for Wales
at bbc.co.uk, dated 30 December 2000. Retrieved 31 January 2008. There was anger in 1998 when Legge-Bourke allowed the young princes to

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down the fifty-metre dam of Grwyne Fawr Reservoir in Wales without safety lines or helmets. Staff at

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mounted an inquiry, and Legge-Bourke was reported to have been saved only by the princes' adoration of her. The press predicted time and again that Legge-Bourke was about to be sacked, but this never happened. She finally retired from the Prince of Wales's service when she married in October 1999.

Allegations by the Princess of Wales

On 9 December 1992, prime minister

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announced in the

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that

and

, were to separate but had no plans to divorce. At the time, Diana was convinced that Charles loved only

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, ''The Real Diana'' (2005). As early as October 1993, Diana was writing to

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that she believed her husband was now in love with Legge-Bourke and wanted to marry her. On 3 December 1993, Diana announced that she had decided to withdraw from public life.Timeline: Diana, Princess of Wales
online at

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web site. Retrieved 30 January 2008. Legge-Bourke later admitted having had a "schoolgirl crush" on Charles, who had been a frequent visitor to her family's estate. Diana's biographer,

, commented that "Charles is only interested in her as an uncle is interested in a younger niece." On 20 November 1995, a television interview with the Princess of Wales by

Martin Bashir Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's ''Panorama'' programme, for which he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995. Although the intervie ...

was broadcast by the

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. There was no mention of Legge-Bourke. However, on 24 January 1996, newspapers named Diana as the source of an untrue rumour circulated in November and December 1995 that Legge-Bourke had become pregnant by Charles and had had an abortion. The rumours were apparently spread by Bashir as a means to gain an interview with the princess. It was reported that words had been exchanged between Diana and Legge-Bourke on the matter at a party on 14 December 1995, when Diana had said to her "So sorry about the baby", and an "informed source" was quoted as saying "The Queen was absolutely furious and totally in sympathy with Tiggy." On 18 December 1995, Legge-Bourke, with the Queen's agreement, instructed the libel lawyer

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to write to Diana's solicitors demanding an apology, asking that the accusation be "recognised to be totally untrue". On 22 January 1996, shortly before the story of the unfounded abortion allegation was published, Diana's private secretary

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resigned, as did his assistant Nicole Cockell the next day. Jephson later wrote that Diana had "exulted in accusing Legge-Bourke of having had an abortion". Jealous of her sons' affection for the woman who cared for them, Diana became more hostile towards Legge-Bourke, asking that she leave the room while Diana was talking to her sons on the telephone. In February 1996, newspapers published a letter from Diana to Charles in which she asked that "Miss Legge-Bourke not spend unnecessary time in the children's rooms... read to them at night, nor supervise their bathtime." Charles and Diana's divorce was made absolute on 28 August 1996. One year later, Diana died in a road accident in Paris on 31 August 1997. Much later,

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headed

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, an inquiry into the accident which reported its findings on 14 December 2006. According to the report, Diana feared that both she and Camilla Parker Bowles were the victims of a plot intended to make it possible for the Prince of Wales to marry a third woman.Operation Paget Report
at the web site of the

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. Retrieved 30 January 2008. As journalists digested Lord Stevens's report, they looked with a fresh eye at the conspiracy theories the report had demolished and tried to construct another out of Charles's supposed love for Legge-Bourke. The story resurfaced again when the British

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into the deaths of Diana and Dodi Fayed began at the

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in London on 2 October 2007, headed by

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sitting as a

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. On 6 October 2007, the judge was reported as telling the court that in the evidence of Lord Mishcon, Diana's

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, Diana had told him that "Camilla was not really Charles's lover, but a decoy for his real favourite, the nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke". In December 2007, witnesses at the inquest were questioned about a letter to

from the Princess dating from October 1993, of which only redacted versions had previously been public. In this letter, the Princess of Wales had written: On 7 January 2008, Diana's friend Rodney Turner, giving evidence to the inquest, described his shock at seeing the contents of Diana's letter to Burrell,Diana affair over before crash, inquest told
by Rosalind Ryan in ''The Guardian'' online, article dated 7 January 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2008. but on 15 January 2008, Maggie Rea, a lawyer in the firm headed by Lord Mishcon (who died in January 2006), gave evidence to the inquest about Diana's fears to much the same effect as the letter, based on a note Mishcon had left on his file and on a meeting Rea and a colleague had had with Mishcon in October 1995. In what is called 'the Mishcon note', which dates from 1995, Diana forecast that in 1996 the Queen would abdicate, the Prince of Wales would discard Parker Bowles in favour of Legge-Bourke, and that she would herself die in a planned road crash.Former Met chief 'was a party to Diana's murder by keeping death prophecy secret
by Alan Hamilton in ''The Times'' online, article dated 18 January 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2008. Before he died, Mishcon copied the note to the Metropolitan Police, who took no action on it. On 7 October 2007, the journalist Jasper Gerard mocked the 'conspiracy theorists' promoting ever-stranger notions of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales: In September 2021, Legge-Bourke was offered significant damages by the BBC after an investigation into how the 1995 interview was obtained and amid reports that Martin Bashir himself had provided Diana with a faked abortion "receipt" which led Diana to believe that Legge-Bourke had become pregnant following an affair with Prince Charles. On 21 July 2022, the BBC in a High Court public apology to Legge-Bourke, in London, stated, "The BBC accepts that the allegations made against the claimant were wholly baseless, should never have been made, and that the BBC did not, at the time, adequately investigate serious concerns over the circumstances in which the BBC secured the ''Panorama'' interview with Diana, Princess of Wales." The BBC will pay substantial damages and legal costs to the claimant.

Marriage and children

In October 1999 she married Charles Pettifer, a former

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officer, with two sons from a previous marriage, commenting to the press "He is magic". She pointedly did not invite Camilla Parker Bowles to her wedding, apparently as Camilla had been an adversary, and had once referred to Legge-Bourke as "the hired help". Princes William and Harry attended the wedding, but Charles said he had a prior engagement. Legge-Bourke and Pettifer had a brief romance while they were teenagers at school in the 1980s (she at Heathfield, he at

). They stayed friends while he was married to Camilla Wyatt, and Legge-Bourke was godmother to one of their sons. Until May 1997, Pettifer was company secretary and a director of Unique Security Consultants Ltd., providing former

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officers as bodyguards. He then became chief executive of Rapport Research and Analysis Ltd, supplying companies with former SAS officers for protection work. In recent years, Pettifer has developed a farmhouse bed and breakfast business at Ty'r Chanter, near

on the Glanusk estate, billed as 'The Tiggy Experience'. In April 2006, she attended the Sovereign's Parade at Sandhurst for Prince Harry's passing out as an officer of the

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. In November 2006, the Prince of Wales was reported to be a regular visitor to Pettifer and her family in Powys. Tiggy and Charles Pettifer were two of the one hundred and fifty guests invited to Camilla's sixtieth birthday party on 21 July 2007. Tiggy Pettifer also attended the service of thanksgiving for the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and the

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on 19 November 2007.

Honours

Pettifer was appointed

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(MVO) in the

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Ancestry

;Sources for family tree: *''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition, 2004) * ''Who's Who'' and ''Who Was Who''
thepeerage.com
*Ruvigny & Raineval, Marquis of, ''

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: The Anne of Exeter Volume'' (London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907) p. 543
Memorial Fountain, Crickhowell
at web site of Public Monument and Sculpture Association's National Recording Project *''Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood (1853–1931)'' in ''

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'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Descendants of Henry VIII, King of England
at worldroots.com

References

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