 He married his first wife, the actress Virginia Maskell in 1962; the couple had two children, born in 1963 and 1966, but Maskell died, by suicide, in 1968, by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets, and from exposure after lying down in a wood.On 27 July 1972, Shakerley married Lady Elizabeth Anson, daughter of Thomas, Viscount Anson, and Anne Bowes-Lyon, in Westminster Abbey.Her brother was society fashion photographer Patrick Lichfield.