The elder son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville, whose mother Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, was a daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, he was educated at Eton College[1] and from 1973 to 1976 was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II,[2][1] who was his godmother.
[3] In 1960, his father bought the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides from the Duke of Hamilton,[4] and he grew up there.
[3] In 1999, a local smokehouse business came up for sale and Granville took it over, aiming to produce high quality smoked salmon and sea trout.
[3] With a passion for beachcombing, Granville has also become an artist and sculptor, inspired by flotsam and jetsam[3] and has exhibited his work in North Uist and Edinburgh.
[7] On 23 May 1997, Granville married Anne Topping, a daughter of Bernard Topping, and they had three children:[1] In 2021, Granville was reported to be living at Callernish with a new wife, Florence Pearson, an artist, their two young sons, a labrador trained to find ambergris, and a parrot.