During the 1980s, Linley had an eight-year relationship with
Susannah Constantine, as discussed in her autobiography. In 1990, Linley took legal action against the
Today newspaper for an article accusing him of "rowdy behaviour in a pub". He was eventually awarded £30,000 in damages. On 8 October 1993, Linley married the Hon.
Serena Alleyne Stanhope (born 1 March 1970,
Limerick, Ireland), daughter of
Viscount Petersham (later the 12th
Earl of Harrington) at
St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. There were 650 guests in attendance. Through her father, Stanhope descends from
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, one of the illegitimate children of
Charles II of England. He and his wife have two children: • Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1 July 1999 at
Portland Hospital in London), an
Old Etonian who studied product design engineering at
Loughborough University. He is 27th in the line of succession to the British throne. •
Lady Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne Armstrong-Jones (born 14 May 2002 at
Portland Hospital in London), who studied
jewellery design,
stonesetting, and
wax carving at La Haute École de Joaillerie in
Paris. She is 28th in the line of succession to the British throne. From 2000 until 2002, Linley, his wife and son lived at
Kensington Palace with his mother, Princess Margaret, in her declining years. On 8 April 2002, Linley, along with the
Prince of Wales, the
Duke of York, and the
Earl of Wessex, "stood guard" at the lying-in-state of their grandmother,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. This
Vigil of the Princes had taken place only once before, during the lying-in-state of
George V in 1936. , at the National Service of Thanksgiving for the
Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2022In October and November 2007, rumours circulated on the internet suggesting that a member of the British royal family was the victim of
blackmail. The first confirmation that the royal in the extortion attempt was Viscount Linley came from the journalist
Nicholas Davies. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan tried to extort £50,000 from Linley in September by threatening to release video footage showing sex acts and cocaine use (allegedly by Linley and a male royal aide) on a mobile phone. In 2011, Linley's daughter,
Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, was a bridesmaid at the
wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. In 2012, his son, styled by courtesy as Viscount Linley since January 2017, was appointed by the Queen as a
page of honour. The family has three homes: a flat in
Chelsea, London; a cottage on the
Daylesford estate in Gloucestershire; and the
Château d'Autet in the
Luberon, Provence. He and his wife separated in February 2020. ==Titles, styles, honours and arms==