Career
Shand Kydd sold the family business in 1962 and moved his family to Australia, where he became a sheep farmer. Their marriage faltered, and Shand Kydd had an affair with Marie-Pierre Becret Palmer, who ran a champagne-importing business in London. Shand Kydd married Palmer in 1993 and their relationship lasted until April 1995.
Peter Shand Kydd died on 23 March 2006, at the age of eighty, and was buried on 6 April 2006 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.