Phoebe Dahl and a romantic tale of the unexpected

WHEN she was engaged to Orange Is The New Black star Ruby Rose, they were one of Hollywood’s hottest couples, but now Roald Dahl’s granddaughter Phoebe has surprised friends by finding love with a Frenchman.

The fashion designer, 34, is going out with a chap called Balthazar Le Bret.

‘He’s from Paris and we sailed across the Atlantic together last year,’ Phoebe tells me.

Phoebe — whose mother is Lucy Dahl, daughter of the much-loved children’s author — has shared photos of her kissing Balthazar (right), whom she describes as her ‘boyfriend’.

‘He’s very private, so she can’t say much, but she’s in love,’ one of her friends tells me.

Based in St Barts, in the West Indies, where she teaches yoga, Phoebe is the founder of ethical fashion label Faircloth & Supply.

Phoebe had said ‘it was love at first sight’ when she met Ruby Rose (top) at a barbecue in LA in 2014, which was tricky because Dahl had a girlfriend at the time. She ended that relationship the same night, then broke into the Australian actress’s house at 6am a couple of days later brandishing flowers. Ruby, 36, proposed to Phoebe after three months.

However, they split up in 2015 and Phoebe then went out with DJ and former model Tatiana de Leon.

An alumna of Wildwood, the progressive liberal arts school in Los Angeles, Phoebe has said she doesn’t define her sexuality, explaining: ‘I don’t feel the need to put any label on it.

‘I don’t think there is a limit to love.

‘I grew up in a family which believed that.

‘At my school you could be who you wanted without judgment.’