Their elder son, Magnus Linklater (born 1942), is a journalist and former editor of The Scotsman and their second, Andro Linklater, was also a writer and journalist.
Jejich starší syn Magnus Linklater (narozen 1942) je novinář, bývalý šéfredaktor deníku The Scotsman a jejich druhý syn Andro Linklater (1944–2013) byl také spisovatel a novinář.