It was just making sure she was OK, but she's been so proud in the hospital, telling everyone: 'My granddaughter won an Olympic gold medal.'" While on a personal level her family influence was key, it is hard not to ignore that for Team GB the path to gold was made easier by such forensic planning.
The most prominent name on the list is probably that of Kiran Desai, whose novel set in the Himalayas and New York, The Inheritance of Loss, in which a judge's quiet retirement is shaken by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, won the 2006 Man Booker prize.
"One of my granddaughters picked Montana to win the whole thing," he said.
Great Britain's team, which included Zara Phillips, the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, won the silver.
The Queen's granddaughter became the first royal to win an Olympic medal as part of the Great Britain eventing team that took silver at London 2012.
The Queen's granddaughter became the first royal to win an Olympic medal as part of the Great Britain eventing team that won silver at London 2012.
Rose Stigger, 61, twice went to court to win custody of her granddaughters, fearing for their welfare with an errant mother and a father (her son) in and out of prison.
The Queen, his great-granddaughter, has tried on nine occasions to win the Derby.
Can he win? 2 Grand: John and Sally, the grandfather-granddaughter singing duo, made it through to the final after winning the judges' vote.
Her granddaughter Zara Phillips, Harry's cousin, won a silver medal as an equestrian.
