 Ranulph Glanville has a son Severi (born 1974) with his first wife Finnish architect Tuulikki Leskinen (born 1947).He was married to the Dutch physiotherapist, Aartje Hulstein (1950–2016), and lived in Southsea, on the south coast of England.Glanville's lifelong and continuing concern was to design frameworks that support many different understandings and interpretations.