Personal Life
Liddell-Grainger is a great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria, as his great-grandmother was Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, and he is thus 309th in the line of succession to the British Throne. Through Princess Alice's husband, the Earl of Athlone, he is a great-great-great-great-grandson of King George III. He is also a great-grandson of the 12th Earl of Lindsey. He is the Scottish feudal baron of Ayton, Scottish Borders, and proprietor of Ayton Castle, which is open to the public. Liddell-Grainger, like his father, is a KStJ.
Liddell-Grainger has been married since 31 October 1985 to the former Jill Nesbit (born 9 March 1956) and they have three children: Peter Richard (born 6 May 1987), Sophie Victoria (born 27 December 1988), and May Alexandra (born 9 September 1992).
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