Poppy Delevingne shares photo of her grandmother with Prince Philip in Venice in 1936

British model Poppy Delevingne has shared on Instagram a family story, accompanied by a photograph of her grandmother with the seventeen-year-old Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, on holiday in Venice in 1936. According to the family recollection, her grandmother said she understood at once that this young man would one day make someone a very good husband. As you can see, the grandmother of the Delevingne models, the Honourable Angela Margo Hamar Delevingne (née Greenwood), daughter of the first Baron Greenwood, was also a picture-book beauty.

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