Personal Life
Thorpe was married to interior decorator Caroline Allpass (1938-–1970), the daughter of Warwick Allpass and Marcell William, in May 1968. Their son Rupert was born in 1969. Caroline Thorpe was killed in a car crash in June 1970.
Thorpe married Marion Stein in 1973. She is a distinguished former concert pianist, and the former wife of the 7th Earl of Harewood, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
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