Eleanor Legge-Bourke

Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke (born 1980) is a British public relations executive and television personality.

Background

Half English and half Portuguese, Eleanor Legge-Bourke is the daughter of Heneage Legge-Bourke and Maria Clara de Sá-Carneiro. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p24487.htm#i244862 Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke] at thepeerage.com (accessed 7 February 2008)] [Mosley, C. (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 1, p. 1039]

Her father, Heneage Legge-Bourke, is senior director, financial engineering, with the French bank Natixis (and before that with its predecessor IXIS Corporate Investment Bank), specializing in property and renewable energy finance. [ [http://www.unece.org/ie/se/pp/29june.html Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Geneva, 29 June 2005] at unece.org (accessed 7 February 2008)] He was a Page of Honour to HM the Queen in 1963-1964. Her 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. ["LEGGE-BOURKE, Sir Edward Alexander Henry" in "Who Was Who 1971–1980" (London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint: ISBN 0-7136-3227-5)] Her other grandfather, Vasco de Sá-Carneiro, lived in Lisbon.

Career

Legge-Bourke’s main career is in public relations, and has taken her as far afield as Kazakhstan. [ [http://www.naymz.com/search/eleanor/legge-bourke/383658 Eleanor Legge-Bourke, Kazakhstan PR/reporter] at naymz.com (accessed 7 February 2008)] [ [http://www.universalnews-us.com/pdfs/kazakhstan2.pdf Major league energy exporter blazes new economy trails] at universalnews-us.com (accessed 7 February 2008)]

In a different direction, she was a contestant of "Nice People" in 2003, a French Television version of the show "Big Brother". [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/may/20/channel4.bigbrother Sun offers £50k for Big Brother sex] by Ciar Byrne at MediaGuardian online, dated May 20 2003 (accessed 7 February 2008)] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1366859/ Eleanor Legge-Bourke] at imdb.com (accessed 7 February 2008)] In May, 2003, she hit the headlines with stories of on-screen goings-on with Prosper Masquelier, leading her cousin Tiggy Legge-Bourke to comment “She is a very, very good girl and I am devoted to her. I am backing her all the way.” [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article151121.ece Tiggy shock at TV frolic] , article by Charles Rae in ‘’The Sun’’ dated 13 May 2003 (accessed 7 February 2008)]

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1366859/ Eleanor Legge-Bourke] at imdb.com
* [http://lebalhc.free.fr/fr/thegirlsathomefr.htm Photograph by Thierry Chomel, with Pureza Vasconcellos] at ‘’ Les Nouvelles Debs à la Maison’’