Married in 1940 to his second wife Nancie, Villiers settled in Oxford, England, and continued to be active in sailing and writing. He was the Captain of the "Mayflower II" in her 1957 maiden voyage across the Atlantic, 337 years after the original "Mayflower", and beating her predecessor's time of 67 days by 13 days. He was involved in almost every large Age of Sail ship then still in existence , including the "Balclutha", the USCGC "Eagle", the "Falls of Clyde", the "Gazela", the "Sagres", and would also prove instrumental in the restoration of the "Star of India". From 1963-67 he was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to build a replica of HM Bark "Endeavour". He advised on the 1962 MGM movie "Mutiny on the Bounty". Villiers was a regular contributor to the National Geographic Magazine throughout the 1950s and 1960s.