Bragg married his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche, in 1961, and in 1965, they had a daughter Marie-Elsa Bragg. Roche was a French viscountess studying painting at Oxford. In 1971, Roche killed herself. "I could have done things which helped and I did things which harmed", he told "The Guardian" in 1998. "So yes, I feel guilt, I feel remorse." Bragg's second wife, Cate Haste, whom he married in 1973, is also a television producer and writer, whose literary work includes editing the 2007 memoir of Clarissa Eden, widow of Anthony Eden, and collaborating with Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair, on a 2004 book about the wives of British prime ministers. They have a son and a daughter. In June 2016 it was reported that Bragg and Haste had separated amicably, and that Bragg now shared a home with former film assistant Gabriel Clare-Hunt, a woman with whom he had an affair in 1995.