Editing Richard Harris (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Richard Harris, actor, and wife Ann Turkel.jpg|thumb|Richard Harris and [[Ann Turkel]] in 1977]]
In 1957, Harris married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of [[David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore]]. They had three children: director [[Damian Harris]], and actors [[Jared Harris]] and [[Jamie Harris (actor)|Jamie Harris]]. Harris and Rees-Williams divorced in 1969, after which Elizabeth married [[Rex Harrison]]. Harris's second marriage was to the American actress [[Ann Turkel]] in 1974. They divorced in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Turkel. Hello! magazine article |url=http://www.annturkel.com/hello-magazine/ |website=annturkel.com |access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>

Harris was a member of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Knights of Malta]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hanauer |first1=Joan |title=Harris Knighted - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/06/10/HARRIS-KNIGHTED/2317360993600/ |access-date=5 October 2023 |work=UPI |agency=United Press International |date=10 June 1981 |language=en}}</ref>

Harris paid £75,000 for [[William Burges]]' [[The Tower House|Tower House]] in Holland Park in 1968, after discovering that the American entertainer [[Liberace]] had arranged to buy the house but had not yet put down a deposit.<ref name="Goodwin2011">{{cite book|author=Cliff Goodwin|title=Behaving Badly: Richard Harris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RI-FAj0F7EYC&pg=PT175|access-date=21 June 2012|date=31 May 2011|publisher=Ebury Publishing|isbn=978-0-7535-4651-2|pages=175–}}</ref><ref name="Dakers1999–276">{{cite book|author=Caroline Dakers|title=The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCg7HL0z9PwC&pg=PA276|access-date=28 June 2012|date=11 December 1999|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-08164-0|pages=276–}}</ref> Harris employed the original decorators, Campbell Smith & Company Ltd., to carry out extensive restoration work on the interior.<ref name="Dakers1999–276" />

Harris was a vocal supporter of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (PIRA) from 1973 until 1984.<ref name="Michael Feeney Callan 2004 267">{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-wxCwq4u4EC&pg=PA267|title=Richard Harris: Sex, Death and the Movies|year=2004|author=Michael Feeney Callan|page=267|publisher=Pavilion Books |isbn=978-1-86105-766-2}}</ref> In January 1984, remarks he made on the previous month's [[Harrods bombing]] caused great controversy, after which he discontinued his support for the PIRA.<ref name=ocala2>{{cite news|title=Richard Harris Says IRA Has A Just Cause|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4apPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5329%2C4273635|access-date=17 September 2013|newspaper=[[Star-Banner]]|date=24 January 1984}}</ref><ref name=gettysburg>{{cite news|title=Richard Harris ducking IRA "bombs"|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GNYlAAAAIBAJ&pg=6372%2C5324388|access-date=17 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Gettysburg Times]]|date=25 November 1988}}</ref><ref name="Michael Feeney Callan 2004 267" />

At the height of his stardom in the 1960s and early 1970s, Harris was almost as well known for his hellraiser lifestyle and heavy drinking as he was for his acting career. He was a longtime alcoholic until he became a [[Teetotalism|teetotaller]] in 1981. Nevertheless, he did resume drinking [[Guinness]] a decade later.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cripps |first=Ed |title=The Glory Days of the Hellraiser |url=https://therake.com/stories/icons/glory-days-hellraiser-richard-harris/ |website=The Rake |date=1 September 2016 |access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref> He gave up drugs after almost dying from a [[cocaine]] overdose in 1978.