Tiggy Legge-Bourke called William and Harry her 'babies' and snubbed Queen from wedding
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A 31-year-old British man who was killed in a terror attack in New Orleans was the stepson of Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Prince William's and Prince Harry's former nanny. Edward Pettifer was killed in the early hours of New Year's Day when a rented SUV, believed to be driven by 42-year-old army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, rammed into a crowd on the city's famous Bourbon Street. The victim, from Chelsea in west London, was the eldest son of Charles Pettifer, 59, a former Coldstream Guards officer, and Camilla Wyatt, 58, the daughter of a racehorse breeder.
Charles later married Ms Legge-Bourke, 59, who was a nanny to William and Harry from 1993 until 1999. The former nanny once referred to the royal princes as "my babies", breaching stiff royal rules. Ms Pettifer also hit headlines in January 1998 after taking the young princes on a hunt, and passed out glasses of sloe gin as they chased animals. The same year, St James' Palace launched an inquiry after it was revealed she had taken the young princes to abseil the 50-metre dam wall of Grwyne Fawr Reservoir in Wales.
But perhaps one of the biggest eyebrow-raisers in Ms Pettifer's career was the gaffe when the then-34-year-old declined to invite Camilla Parker-Bowles to her wedding to Mr Pettifer in October 1999. Already inviting her former employer, then Prince Charles and his two sons, the exclusion of Camilla was dubbed a huge gaffe at the time - and it was reportedly after the Duchess referred to Ms Pettifer as "the hired help".
