Overview
- The Glanusk Estate announced she died peacefully at home surrounded by her children, with the family calling her “an inspiration” and “a country girl at heart.”
- She served as Lord Lieutenant of Powys and High Sheriff of Powys, and led or supported groups including Save the Children in Wales, the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs.
- Legge-Bourke was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne, while her daughter Tiggy was nanny to Princes William and Harry, who spent time at the family’s Glanusk Estate.
- Born into the Glanusk lineage, she inherited the 18,000-acre estate in 1948 at age five and later diversified it to include rentals, weddings, shoots and the Green Man festival, a hands-on approach captured in a 2006 BBC Wales documentary.
- She was appointed LVO in 1988 and promoted to DCVO in 2015, and is survived by her three children—Alexandra (Tiggy), Zara and Harry—and seven grandchildren; her husband, Captain William Legge-Bourke, died in 2009.