Personal Life
Sykes met and married Valeria when both were aged 22. Sykes and his wife are currently separated. Sykes has vowed not to leave any of his fortune to his children, except for buying them houses, to encourage them to make their own way in the world.
The couple lived in a property just outside Ripon, North Yorkshire. Disturbed by noise from an English Civil War re-enactment within the grounds of Fountains Abbey, which is near his home, he offered to buy the historic site from the National Trust. Turned down, the Trust still runs the site.
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