Charles III ‘deeply saddened’ by violent death of William and Harry’s nanny’s stepson

A 31-year-old British man, who was the stepson of the former housekeeper of Princes William and Harry, is among 14 people killed on New Year’s Eve in the Islamist car-ramming attack in New Orleans, British police announced on Saturday. Charles III is “deeply saddened” by the death of Edward Pettifer, the British PA agency reported. The king contacted the victim’s family to offer his condolences. Edward Pettifer was the stepson of Princes William and Harry’s former governess, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who is also known as Alexandra Pettifer. Prince William was also informed of the death of Edward Pettifer, according to the PA agency.

Hired as a nanny by Prince Charles in 1993

If the name of Tiggy Legge-Bourke is almost forgotten today by everyone, he was for a long time the subject of the tabloid press which attributed to him an affair with the future king, to the point that a dark rumor of abortion had also been fantasized. Hired as a nanny by Prince Charles in 1993, shortly after his separation from Princess Diana, she made the mistake of describing William and Harry as “her babies”, which fueled the anger of the Spencer clan.

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Diana, who demanded that she leave the room when her children called her, also accused her of smoking too close to her children. Tiggy Legge-Bourke would leave royal service in 1999, having married Charles Pettifer, Edward’s father, in 1999. She subsequently fought for her honor – the BBC even had to apologize and pay her damages and interest in 2022. His family has remained very close to the crown. One of her sons, Tom, was one of Prince William’s groomsmen at his 2011 wedding, and she was a guest at Prince Harry’s wedding in 2018.

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Fourteen dead

The Metropolitan Police said it supported the victim’s family and helped them with the procedure for repatriating the body to the United Kingdom. Edward Pettifer’s family is “devastated by the tragic news of Ed’s death.” “We will miss him terribly. Our thoughts are with the other families who have lost a family member following this terrible attack,” she added, quoted in the Metropolitan Police press release.

Fourteen people were killed and around thirty others injured in the attack which occurred in the tourist French quarter of New Orleans, in the south of the United States, in the midst of New Year’s festivities. A former soldier American, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, “inspired” by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), rushed his car into the crowd. He was later killed in exchanges of fire with police.