Editing Rupert Hart-Davis (section)

===Ancestry and personal life===
Hart-Davis was a great-great-great-grandson of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]]. William had several illegitimate children with his mistress, [[Dora Jordan]]. Their youngest daughter, Lady Elizabeth Fitzclarence, later Countess of Erroll, had daughters including Lady Agnes Hay. Lady Agnes married [[James Duff, 5th Earl Fife]], and among their children was Lady Agnes Duff, who married [[Alfred Cooper|Sir Alfred Cooper]]. Their children included Sybil Cooper, mother of Rupert Hart-Davis.<ref>Theroff, Paul: Theroff Files (j1d.txt), listing descendants of King James VI & I of England and Scotland.</ref>

While still an actor, Hart-Davis met the young [[Peggy Ashcroft]] whom he married in 1929. The marriage was short-lived, ending in divorce in 1933, though the two remained warm friends until Ashcroft's death more than sixty years later.

In November 1933, he married Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner.<ref>Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Debrett's Ltd, 1971, p. 2206</ref><ref>Who Was Who 1996-2000, St Martin's Press, 1996, p. 252</ref> They had a daughter in 1935, Bridget, who went on to marry [[David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe]], in 1963, and two sons, [[Duff Hart-Davis|Duff]] in 1936, and the TV presenter [[Adam Hart-Davis|Adam]] in 1943. The second marriage became dysfunctional, although husband and wife remained on good terms and stayed together until their children were grown up, when Hart-Davis and Comfort divorced. In 1964, he married Ruth Simon Ware, with whom he had had a long-term relationship. After her death in 1967, he married June Williams in 1968, who outlived him. She died in 2017.<ref>[http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/213539/hart-davis Obituary], telegraph.co.uk. Accessed 11 January 2023.</ref>

After the war, until his retirement, Hart-Davis lived during the week in a flat above his publishing business in [[Soho Square]], returning to his main home at Bromsden Farm, [[Oxfordshire]], at weekends. He retired to [[Marske, Richmondshire|Marske]] in North Yorkshire, where he died at the age of 92.<ref name=dnb/>