Shân Legge-Bourke

{{Short description|British landowner}}

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Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|DCVO}} (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 Park estate of some 18,000 acres on his death in 1948. In 1964 she married Captain William Legge-Bourke{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/william-legge-bourke-dies-aged-69-2115858 |title=William Legge-Bourke dies aged 69|website=Wales Online|date=4 March 2009 |access-date=3 November 2019}} (1939–2009; son of Major Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely), and they have three children:

• Tiggy Pettifer (née Alexandra Shân Legge-Bourke; born 1965), nanny to Princes William and Harry.
• Zara Victoria Gordon-Lennox (née Legge-Bourke; born 1966), first wife of Richard Drax.
• Captain Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (born 1972) an officer in the Welsh Guards, former aide-de-camp to Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and page of honour to HM the Queen between 1985 and 1987.

In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Powys.{{London Gazette|issue=55227|page=8943|nolink=yes|date=17 August 1998}} In 2006 she was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk. [https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/tv-cameras-show-life-leading-2311360.amp TV cameras show the life of our leading county lady], Wales Online, 5 September 2006

Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1988,{{London Gazette|issue=51365|supp=y|page=4|date=11 June 1988}} in the 2015 New Year Honours Legge-Bourke was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO).{{London Gazette|issue=61092|supp=y|page=N4|date=31 December 2014}}

She was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Royal in January 2024.Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024