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 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. her other grandfather, vasco de sá-carneiro, lived in lisbon.