Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, KBE (16 May 1914 – 21 May 1973), was a British Conservative politician, and a Member of Parliament for Isle of Ely from 1945 until his death in 1973.
In 1941, he was liaison officer, GHQ, British Forces in Greece, and served with the 7th Armoured Division at El Alamein.
[1] A popular local MP (he was made a Freeman by Wisbech Municipal Borough in 1973), he instructed Prime Minister Clement Attlee to "Change the bloody record" as he threw a coin at him – an incident which had him briefly debarred from the Commons.
[5] As an MP, Legge-Bourke was a vocal supporter of the Palestinian and Arab cause, describing Zionism as "a menace to world peace"[6] and referring to the establishment of the state of Israel as "an act of aggression on those who lived in Palestine.
His granddaughter, Alexandra "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke (now Pettifer), was nanny to Princes William and Harry.