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Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke (born 1 August 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an English public relations executive.
Half English and half Portuguese, Eleanor Legge-Bourke is the daughter of Heneage Legge-Bourke and Maria Clara, daughter of Vasco de Sá-Carneiro, of Lisbon, Portugal. [1]
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. [2] He was a Page of Honour to HM the Queen in 1963–1964. 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. [3]
She took part of a French reality television show, in 2003: Nice People.
Legge-Bourke's main career is in public relations, and has taken her as far afield as Kazakhstan. [4] [5]
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