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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

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, Legge-Bourke inherited the Glanusk Park estate of some 18,000 acres on his death in 1948. In 1964 she married Captain William Legge-Bourke (1939–2009; son of Major Sir

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, a

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MP for the

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), and they have three children: *

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(née Legge-Bourke; born 1965), nanny to Princes

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and

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. * 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

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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

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(LVO) in 1988, in the

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Legge-Bourke was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO).

References

External links

Shân Legge-Bourke interview on AP Archive
1943 births Living people Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Lord-Lieutenants of Powys Daughters of barons Welsh landowners {{Wales-bio-stub