Editing Rod Liddle (section)

==Personal life==
Liddle met Rachel Royce, a television presenter, at the BBC in 1993, and the couple soon became romantically involved.<ref name=Burleigh>Burleigh, James. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-cheating-the-rows-the-revenge-liddle-and-royce-spill-their-vitriol-and-manure-in-public-552858.html "The cheating, the rows, the revenge: Liddle and Royce spill their vitriol (and manure) in public"], ''The Independent'', 12 July 2004.</ref>  In January 2004 the couple married at a ceremony in Malaysia. They had been living in [[Heytesbury]], Wiltshire, and had two sons together, Tyler and Wilder.<ref name="Burleigh"/> Six months later, Liddle moved in with Alicia Monckton, a 22-year-old receptionist at ''The Spectator''. It transpired that he had cut short his honeymoon with Royce so that he could be with Monckton.<ref name="Burleigh"/> Following their divorce, Liddle and Royce exchanged attacks in the media. Liddle called her a "total slut and slattern",<ref>Cassandra Jardine [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3620637/Men-always-want-other-women.html "'Men always want other women'"], ''Daily Telegraph'', 13 July 2004</ref> and Royce wrote an article in the ''Daily Mail'' titled "My cheating husband Rod, 10 bags of manure and me the bunny boiler. As for The Slapper... she's welcome to him".<ref name="Smith2004">{{cite news|last=Smith|first=David|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jul/11/pressandpublishing.uknews|title=The bitter fallout from a media divorce|work=The Observer|date=11 July 2004|access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="Cole">{{cite news|last=Cole|first=Peter|title=Welcome to the Rod, Rachel and Alicia show. But who's it aimed at?|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/peter-cole-welcome-to-the-rod-rachel-and-alicia-show-but-whos-it-aimed-at-47772.html|work=The Independent|date=17 July 2004|access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref>

On 5 May 2005, he was arrested for common assault against Monckton, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time. He admitted the offence and accepted a [[police caution]], but asserted later that he did so only because it was the quickest way for him to be released, and that he had not assaulted her.<ref>Bloomfield, Steve. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/oh-dear-the-telephone-puts-poor-rod-on-the-hook-again-489914.html "Oh dear, the telephone puts poor Rod on the hook again"], ''The Independent'', 8 May 2005.
* Sanderson, David. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110918113646/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article519825.ece "Liddle gets caution for row with girlfriend"], ''The Times'', 7 May 2005.</ref> The couple's daughter, Emmeline, named after the [[suffragette]], [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], was born in October 2005.<ref name="Groskop"/> The couple married in September 2008.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}