Editing Guy Ritchie (section)

=== 1968–1997: Early life and career beginnings ===
Ritchie was born in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire]],<ref name="b" /> the second of two children of Amber (''{{née}}'' Parkinson) and Captain John Vivian Ritchie (b. 1928), former [[Seaforth Highlanders]] officer and advertising executive. He has an elder sister, and a half-brother who was born to Amber Parkinson and placed for adoption.<ref>{{cite web|date=5 January 2001|title=My brother is Guy Ritchie|url=http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2001/jan/010105guy.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010420122526/http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2001/jan/010105guy.htm|archive-date=20 April 2001|website=Adoption Net}}</ref>

Both of Ritchie's parents remarried. His father's second marriage was to [[Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton]], a former model and later [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and [[life peer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9229647/Baroness-Ritchie-of-Brompton.html |title=Baroness Ritchie of Brompton |date=26 April 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831180111/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9229647/Baroness-Ritchie-of-Brompton.html |archive-date=31 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Between 1973 and 1980, Ritchie's mother was married to [[Leighton baronets|Sir Michael Leighton, 11th Baronet]] of [[Loton Park]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|title-link=Burke's Peerage |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2294 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref> As a divorcée, she is styled as Amber, Lady Leighton.<ref>Taraborrelli, J.R. ''[[Madonna: An Intimate Biography]]'', 2007, p. 189</ref>

Ritchie is [[dyslexic]], and attended [[Windlesham House School]] in [[West Sussex]] and [[Stanbridge Earls|Stanbridge Earls School]] in [[Hampshire]]. He was expelled from school at the age of 15.<ref name="b">{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/guy-ritchie-201267 |title=Guy Ritchie Biography: Director (1968–) |publisher=[[Biography.com]] ([[FYI (TV channel)|FYI]] / [[A&E Networks]]) |access-date=30 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721172420/http://www.biography.com/people/guy-ritchie-201267 |archive-date=21 July 2015 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> He has claimed that drug use was the reason for expulsion, although Ritchie's father said he was "cutting class and entertaining a girl in his room".<ref name="autogenerated304">Morton, Andrew, ''Madonna'', London: Macmillan, 2002; page 304.</ref>