Half English and half Portuguese, Eleanor Legge-Bourke is the daughter of Heneage Legge-Bourke and Maria Clara de Sá-Carneiro. 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.
He was a Page of Honour to Her Majesty the Queen in 1963–1964. Her other grandfather, Vasco de Sá-Carneiro, lived in Lisbon. Legge-Bourke"s main career is in public relations, and has taken her as far afield as Kazakhstan.
In a different direction, she was a contestant on Nice People in 2003, a French television version of the show Big Brother.
I am backing her all the way.”.
Her grandfather, Sir Harry 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.
