[1] He was educated at Eton, and graduated from Newcastle University with a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies.
[6] In September 2009, Buckhurst became engaged to Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, daughter of author and historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, distantly related to author Leo Tolstoy.
[5] The marriage took place on 5 February 2010, at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition in London.
[7] A son and heir, William Lionel Robert Sackville, was born on 24 January 2014.
[8] Their second child, a daughter, Victoria Elizabeth Anne Sackville, was born on 6 June 2016.