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Occasionally described as country aristoc****, the Delevingne clan are in fact of one London’s best-connected high society families — a long line of debutantes, party boys and millionaires whose antics have set a high bar for their latest celebrity member.
Cara’s mother, Pandora, 52, was one of the society beauties of the Eighties — a striking debutante who was friends with Sarah Ferguson from school and pushed onto London’s social stage by her mother at a young age.
She fought a crippling heroin addiction in the public eye, at one point moving into the former home of ******** club owner John Aspinall in Belgravia so that her daughters didn’t have to experience her daily trials at close quarters. “Sometimes they have had to live with me being too ill to mother them, which has been agony for me,” she told Tatler, which has benefited from Pandora both on its pages and in the making of them, when she had a spell working there. Now a personal shopper for Selfridges, Pandora has also been instrumental in helping dress the Duchess of Cambridge for duty.
Charles Delevingne, Cara’s father, moves in the same circles. A dashing “debs’ delight” as a young man, his grandfather was the politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, and his late aunt — Doris Delevingne — was a society girl close to Winston Churchill. Charles made his money in property, and demonstrated his skills when he sold the family’s Grade II-listed Belgravia house for £10.5 million during the worst of the credit crunch.
But more colourful still is the sisters’ grandfather, Sir Jocelyn Stevens — a drinking friend of Princess Margaret’s and former chairman of English Heritage. After breaking up with Pandora’s mother, Janie Sheffield — once a lady-in-waiting to the princess — he lived with Selfridges heiress Dame Vivien Duffield for years, and is remembered for celebrating his 50th birthday by flying 130 friends to the upmarket Swiss ski resort Gstaad for a ball where the tables were reportedly decorated with trees of diamonds and precious stones.
Cara’s mother, Pandora, 52, was one of the society beauties of the Eighties — a striking debutante who was friends with Sarah Ferguson from school and pushed onto London’s social stage by her mother at a young age.
She fought a crippling heroin addiction in the public eye, at one point moving into the former home of ******** club owner John Aspinall in Belgravia so that her daughters didn’t have to experience her daily trials at close quarters. “Sometimes they have had to live with me being too ill to mother them, which has been agony for me,” she told Tatler, which has benefited from Pandora both on its pages and in the making of them, when she had a spell working there. Now a personal shopper for Selfridges, Pandora has also been instrumental in helping dress the Duchess of Cambridge for duty.
Charles Delevingne, Cara’s father, moves in the same circles. A dashing “debs’ delight” as a young man, his grandfather was the politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, and his late aunt — Doris Delevingne — was a society girl close to Winston Churchill. Charles made his money in property, and demonstrated his skills when he sold the family’s Grade II-listed Belgravia house for £10.5 million during the worst of the credit crunch.
But more colourful still is the sisters’ grandfather, Sir Jocelyn Stevens — a drinking friend of Princess Margaret’s and former chairman of English Heritage. After breaking up with Pandora’s mother, Janie Sheffield — once a lady-in-waiting to the princess — he lived with Selfridges heiress Dame Vivien Duffield for years, and is remembered for celebrating his 50th birthday by flying 130 friends to the upmarket Swiss ski resort Gstaad for a ball where the tables were reportedly decorated with trees of diamonds and precious stones.
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