Family
Peter and Celia Fleming remained married until his death in 1971, while on a shooting expedition near Glencoe in Argyll, Scotland. He was also survived by their three children:
- Nicholas "Nichol" Fleming (1939–1996) deposited Peter Fleming's papers for public access at the University of Reading in 1975. These include several unpublished works, as well as the manuscripts of several of his books that are now out of print.
- Kate Fleming (b. 1946) is now Kate Grimond, wife of John Grimond, foreign editor of the news magazine The Economist. John is a son of the late British Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, and grandson maternally of Violet Bonham-Carter, herself daughter of the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Kate and John have three children, Mary, Georgia and Rose. Kate has since the late 1990s been the co-owner of the Ian Fleming estate, with her sister Lucy. Through marriage, Fleming is distantly related to Hollywood actress, Helena Bonham Carter.
- Lucy Fleming (b. 1947), now Lucy Williams, is an actress. In the 1970s she starred as Jenny in the BBC's apocalyptic fiction series Survivors. She was first married in 1971 to Joseph "Joe" Laycock (d. 1980), son of family friend Robert Laycock and his wife Angela Dudley Ward. Lucy and Joe had two sons and a daughter, Flora. Flora and her father, Joe, were drowned in a boating accident in 1980. Lucy later married the actor and writer Simon Williams.
After the death of his brother Ian, Peter Fleming served on the board of Glidrose, Ltd., the company purchased by Ian to hold the literary rights to his professional writing, particularly the James Bond novels and short stories. As part of the board, Peter Fleming helped guide the future of the literary James Bond in the mid-to-late 1960s. He also tried to become a father-figure to Ian's surviving son, Casper, who committed suicide in his twenties.
Peter Fleming was the godfather of the British author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, who wrote up Fleming's life as Peter Fleming: a Biography (London: Cape, 1976).
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