24 Facts About Tiggy Legge-Bourke

Tiggy Legge-Bourke was a personal assistant to Charles III from 1993 to 1999.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke has used her married name since her marriage to Charles Pettifer in 1999.

Shan Tiggy Legge-Bourke was appointed a lady-in-waiting to the Princess Royal in 1987, was High Sheriff of Powys in 1991, and was the Lord Lieutenant of Powys until 2018.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke's paternal grandfather, Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, was a member of parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke is a cousin of the public relations executive and television personality Eleanor Legge-Bourke.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke was reported in 1994 to be fond of fly fishing and long walks in the country.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke has a sister and a brother, Zara and Harry.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke's brother Harry, born in 1972, was a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II between 1985 and 1987 and became an officer in the Welsh Guards.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke thus became step-grandfather to the Legge-Bourke children until his death in 1991.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke then taught for a year in Balham before leaving to set up her own nursery school in Battersea, called Mrs Tiggywinkle's.

However, they were both reported to be taken aback when he invited Tiggy Legge-Bourke to attend in their place.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke helped to comfort the princes after their mother's death in a road accident in Paris on 31 August 1997.

Staff at St James's Palace mounted an inquiry, and Tiggy Legge-Bourke was reported to have been saved only by the princes' adoration of her.

The press predicted time and again that Tiggy Legge-Bourke was about to be sacked, but this never happened.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke finally retired from the Prince of Wales's service when she married in October 1999.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke later admitted having had a "schoolgirl crush" on Charles, who had been a frequent visitor to her family's estate.

However, on 24 January 1996, newspapers named Diana as the source of an untrue rumour circulated in November and December 1995 that Tiggy Legge-Bourke had become pregnant by Charles and had had an abortion.

Jephson later wrote that Diana had "exulted in accusing Tiggy Legge-Bourke of having had an abortion".

Jealous of her sons' affection for the woman who cared for them, Diana became more hostile towards Tiggy Legge-Bourke, asking that she leave the room while Diana was talking to her sons on the telephone.

In September 2021, Tiggy 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 Tiggy Legge-Bourke had become pregnant following an affair with Prince Charles.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke reportedly did not invite Camilla Parker Bowles to her wedding and Prince Charles did not attend because he had a prior engagement.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke then became chief executive of Rapport Research and Analysis Ltd, supplying companies with former SAS officers for protection work.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke Pettifer attended the service of thanksgiving for the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on 19 November 2007.

Tiggy Legge-Bourke's son, Tom Pettifer was a page boy at Prince William's wedding in 2011 and the former nanny was a special guest at Prince Harry's wedding in 2018.