Piers Courage
Aspinall is the son of Jane Gordon Hastings and John Victor Aspinall who was a zoo owner, gambler, founder of Aspers, conservationist, and the stepson of Sir George Osborne, 16th Baronet. Aspinall's step-mother is Lady Sarah Aspinall. In 1972, his father married Lady Sarah ("Sally") Courage, widow of the racing driver Piers Courage and daughter of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. From the age of six, Aspinall was educated as a boarder at Millfield in Somerset.