The aristocratic mother of Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a>‘s childhood nanny Tiggy has died at the age of 82.<\/p>\n Dame Shan Legge-Bourke was a friend of the Royal Family<\/a>\u00a0and was herself a lady in waiting to\u00a0Princess Anne<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was born the daughter of William Bailey, the 3rd Lord Glanusk, and went on to\u00a0be at the forefront of public life in mid Wales for many decades.<\/p>\n Dame Shan’s ‘devastated’ family announced her death last night, saying she passed away peacefully at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n Paying tribute, they said: ‘We are devastated to lose our mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘She was an inspiration to us all, and to many people she met over her years of service to Wales, and the countless organisations and institutions she supported.<\/p>\n ‘A country girl at heart, she has left an indelible legacy at Glanusk, the wider countryside and beyond.’<\/p>\n When they were boys, Prince William and Prince Harry were regular visitors to Dame Shan’s 18-000 Glanusk estate near Crickhowell on the Welsh border.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prince Harry greets Tiggy Legge-Bourke’s mother Shan in April 2010 in Wales\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dame Shan is pictured in the 1980s when she was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The then-Prince Charles arrives at Zurich Airport with Prince William, Prince Harry and their them- nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke for a skiing holiday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She inherited the property from her father following his death in 1948 when she was just five years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dame Shan had long been a friend of the Royal Family but their ties strengthened when her daughter became nanny to\u00a0Prince William and Prince Harry.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tiggy even controversially called the young princes ‘my babies’ and took them to her parents’ estate.<\/p>\n Tiggy was a personal assistant to King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, from 1993 to 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n She has used her married name since her marriage to Charles Pettifer in 1999.<\/p>\n Dame Shan held a multitude of public roles in Wales, including\u00a0Lord Lieutenant of Powys and chair of the Brecon and Radnor Country and Land Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was also High Sheriff of Powys, President of Save the Children in Wales, President of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs.<\/p>\n Dame Shan Legge-Bourke was a friend of the Royal Family and was herself a lady in waiting to Princess Anne<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Shan Legge-Bourke accompanies Queen Elizabeth II as she visits the Glanusk Estate in 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dame Shan was also known for her work transforming the\u00a0Glanusk Estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n Under her leadership, it diversified from being dependent on agriculture to renting properties, hosting weddings and shoots and more recently the Green Man festival.<\/p>\n Dame Shan was the focus of a four-part television documentary created by BBC Wales called the Lady of Glanusk in 2006.<\/p>\n In it, the then 63-year-old mother-of-three and grandmother-of-seven was seen climbing onto the roof of her home to clean the gutters, plucking pheasants with her grandchildren and sorting out the electrics.<\/p>\n ‘She can drive a tractor better than any man I’ve ever seen and can reverse it through a narrow gap with a trailer on the back of it,’ said her daughter Zara.<\/p>\n In the documentary, she put her skills and hard-working nature down to a ‘wonderful’ childhood in which her mother would encourage her to get involved in all aspects of the estate.<\/p>\n ‘From a really early age I was encouraged by everyone on the estate to be able to put my hand to whatever I could, whether that be searching for eggs, picking raspberries or sitting in the tractor,’ she said.<\/p>\n Prince Harry greets Tiggy Legge-Bourke’s mother Shan in April 2010\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Queen Camilla and\u00a0han Legge-Bourke visit Ysgol Penmaes, a specialist school for children with learning difficulties in 2012\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She also described being sent away to boarding school. She said: ‘I got sent away to boarding school at the age of 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n ;She [her mother] sent me to the furthest-away boarding school she could find in Sussex so that I couldn’t run away – that was awful. I was so homesick.<\/p>\n ‘I can remember literally standing in Abergavenny station waiting to go back to school with the tears streaming down my face.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The aristocratic mother of Prince William and Prince Harry‘s childhood nanny Tiggy has died at the age of 82. 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