She has dyspraxia and found school challenging. ĭelevingne attended Francis Holland School for Girls in central London until she was 16 before moving to Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire. Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel-Phillips baronets two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London. Her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield, a granddaughter of the 6th Baronet Sheffield, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.
Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. She has two older sisters, Chloe and Poppy Delevingne, and a paternal half-brother, Alex Jaffe. Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992, in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of stylist and personal shopper Pandora Anne Delevingne ( née Stevens) and property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne.