With a hat on her head and a scarf around her neck, the pretty 29-year-old blonde displays a dazzling smile as she proudly brandishes her engagement ring made up of a sapphire surrounded by two diamonds. At his side, the man who gave him this precious jewel, Leopold Glover, sunglasses on his nose. A banker by profession, the 31-year-old Briton took advantage of a romantic outing in Central Park, in the heart of Manhattan, to ask for the hand of Phoebe Knatchbull. It is there, in New York, that the two lovers have been living for a little over a year, reports Tatler.
The happy news was announced on the Instagram account of the great-granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, and uncle of Prince Philip. The former student at the University of Bristol, now director of key account development at Freuds+, is in fact the daughter of the honorable Philip Knatchbull – son of the 2e Countess Mountbatten of Burma – and Atalanta Cowan. But his parents divorced in 2000 and his father married his second wife, Wendy Leach, who gave him two sons, Freddy – known for his appearance in the reality TV series Made in Chelsea – et Rocky.
The links between them are strong. Every year, siblings accompany their parents to the Bahamas, Freddy reveals to Tatler. “It’s magical. The family has been going there since the 1970s.” And it is to her older sister, Daisy, that Phoebe intends to turn to create her wedding outfit. At the head of the Knatchbull brand, formerly The Deck, since 2019, she makes tailor-made suits reserved only for women. “All the brides dressed as Knatchbull are amazing,” the cousin at 3 enthused.e degree of princes William and Harry to Richard Eden, journalist for the Daily Mail. Adding that she would be “crazy not to.”
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