Personal Life
Until 2004 Llewelyn-Bowen lived in Kidbrooke, South East London. With his wife Jackie and their two daughters, Cecile (born 1995) and Hermione (born 1998), he moved to a 17th century, grade-II listed manor house in Siddington, a small village in Cirencester, Gloucestershire in April 2007. He and his wife are ambassadors to the aid agency CARE International UK and in February 2008 visited the cyclone-hit areas of Bangladesh. They are also active patrons for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Laurence is also a patron of the children's charity MERU, co-founded by his father Trefor Llewelyn-Bowen with Bill Bond in 1970.
He has recently acquired a home in Port Isaac, Cornwall, which is well known as the filming location of the TV series Doc Martin.
He is related to Emanuel Bowen, map maker to King George II.
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