Personal Life
On 27 August 2003, Armstrong married Hannah Bronwen Snow, an events organiser. He has three sons - Rex (born 2007), Patrick (born 2009) and Edward (2010). Just before Armstrong appeared on This Morning on 24 June 2010, his wife went into labour and later gave birth to their third son, Edward.
In August 2010, Armstrong was featured in an episode of the BBC One genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, through which he discovered that he was a descendant of William the Conqueror. His father comes from a land-owning family with deep connections to the North East and is a great-grandnephew of Robert Spence Watson and distantly descended from William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. With his father's family history already well-known to him, the series traced his mother's side of the family, who were descended from Irish landed gentry. The McCauslands were originally seated in Drenagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and trace their ancestry through the Rouse-Boughton family, to Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of William the Conqueror via Edward III and the Beauforts, Dukes of Somerset.
Armstrong is a supporter of Norwich City FC.
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