Rory David Fleming is the son of Robert Fleming and his wife, Victoria Margaret Aykroyd. He is distantly related to the Queen of the United Kingdom, being the great X4 grandson of William IV

William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...

. Part of his fortune also derives from his family's bank, Robert Fleming & Co.

Robert Fleming & Co.

Robert Fleming & Co. was an asset manager and merchant bank founded in Dundee, Scotland, in 1873. In 1909 the firm moved its headquarters to London. It was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank for over $7 billion in 2000....

He is the nephew of Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...

, James Bond's creator.

Fleming married Baroness Caroline Iuel-Brockdorff on 13 October 2001 at the chapel of Caroline's family's castle, Valdemars Slot in Tåsinge

Tåsinge

Tåsinge is a Danish island south of Funen, at Svendborg. The island covers an area of 70 km² and has 6,111 inhabitants.Tåsinge was once called Thorsinge or Thorsenge, which in the Danish means "Thor's Bed" or "Thor's Meadow"...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. They had two children, Alexander William (b. April 7, 2004 at Portland Hospital

Portland Hospital

The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, usually referred to simply as the Portland Hospital, is a hospital in Great Portland Street, London...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

) and Josephine Margaretha Victoria (b. December 20, 2006) Josephine's godmother is Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark...

.

Caroline filed for divorced in 2008. The couple parted for a variety of reasons, one being that Fleming wished to send Alexander to boarding school when he turned six. Caroline received a £400 million settlement.