![]() A heavy smoker, she was said to be able to smoke even while skiing, and was criticized by Diana for smoking near her sons. She often went with the princes on holidays. It was also considered to be a gaffe when Tiggy referred to William and Harry as "my babies". She gives them a tennis racket and a bucket of popcorn at the movies". 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. As the royal nanny, she soon began to make headlines. She had first joined the prince's staff as an assistant to his private secretary, Richard Aylard. In 1993, shortly after Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife had separated, Charles hired Legge-Bourke as nanny to their two sons. She then taught for a year in Balham before leaving to set up her own nursery school in Battersea, called Mrs Tiggywinkle's. CareerĪfter leaving school, Legge-Bourke took a nursery teacher training course at the St Nicholas Montessori Centre in London. He thus became step-grandfather to the Legge-Bourke children until his death in 1991. In 1966, Legge-Bourke's grandmother Margaret Glenusk, widowed in 1948, married secondly William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, who had been Governor-General of Australia from 1961 until 1965. Legge-Bourke's brother Harry, born in 1972, was a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 19 and became an officer in the Welsh Guards. In 1985, soon after coming out, Zara was married to Captain Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1997. She and her sister, who is a year younger, were debs. She has a sister and a brother, Zara and Harry. The first Glanusk Park, Tiggy Legge-Bourke's ancestral home, built by her ancestor the ironmaster Sir Joseph Baileyīrought up at Glanusk Park, a 6,000-acre (24 km 2) estate in Wales, Tiggy Legge-Bourke was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot, which she left with four O-levels, and the Institut Alpin Videmanette at Rougemont in Switzerland, a finishing school also attended by Diana, Princess of Wales. The family's Glanusk estate was bought (and the first big house there built) by Legge-Bourke's ancestor Sir Joseph Bailey (1783-1858), whose fortune was made in an ironworks at Nantyglo. His death in 1973 led to a famous by-election, won by the Liberal Clement Freud. Tiggy Legge-Bourke's paternal grandfather, Sir Henry Legge-Bourke (1914–1973) was member of parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers. Shân Legge-Bourke was appointed a lady-in-waiting to HRH The Princess Royal in 1987, was High Sheriff of Powys in 1991, and is now Lord Lieutenant of Powys. When Shân Bailey's father died in 1948, she and her mother inherited his estate at Glanusk Park, near Crickhowell in Powys, while his peerage went to a cousin. Shân Legge-Bourke LVO (born 1943), was the only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (1891–1948), a soldier who became a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire.
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