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| Born | 18 April 1971 London, England, UK |
| Spouse(s) | David Cameron (1996–present) |
| Children | Ivan Reginald (2002–2009) Nancy Gwen (b. 2004) Arthur Elwen (b. 2006) |
| Parents | Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor |
Samantha Cameron (born 18 April 1971, London[1]) is an English business executive and wife of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
She is the co-owner of Oka interior design and lighting shop, a luxury goods business in Notting Hill, London. She is also the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street, a stationery firm.
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Early life
Born as Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, she is the eldest daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet, a landowner and three times a descendant from King Charles II of England, by his first marriage to Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. Samantha's parents divorced after five years of marriage. Her mother remarried, to William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, a Minister in John Major's government, and is now styled as Viscountess Astor.
Sheffield grew up on the 300-acre (1.2 km2) estate of Normanby Hall, five miles (8 km) north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. Her family also owns a large Yorkshire estate called Sutton Park. She went to the private School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and then took her A levels at Marlborough College in Wiltshire. She did an art foundation at Camberwell College of Arts and then went on to study Fine Art at the University of the West of England. It was while she was a student there that she met David Cameron through her acquaintance with his sister, Clare Cameron.
Marriage and children
Samantha Sheffield and David Cameron married on 1 June 1996 in Oxfordshire. The couple had three children, one of whom died: Ivan Reginald Ian (born 8 April 2002 Hammersmith and Fulham, London – died 25 February 2009, Paddington, London); Nancy Gwen (born 19 January 2004, Westminster, London) and Arthur Elwen (born 14 February 2006, Westminster, London).[2] Ivan had been born with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy and died at the age of 6 at St Mary's Hospital, London in the early hours of the morning of 25 February 2009.[3]
Ancestors and relations
Cameron's maternal great-grandparents were Sir Roderick Jones (a Chairman of Reuters) and the novelist Enid Bagnold. Both her mother and maternal grandmother, Pandora Clifford, married a member of the Astor family (Pandora was the second wife of Michael Astor). Her stepfather is William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor. Her grandfather, Sir William Mount, was MP for South Berkshire, which he inherited from his father, also William Mount. Her cousin is Sir Ferdinand Mount who was head of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit in the 1980s.
Fashion icon
Cameron is sometimes thought of as a UK fashion icon, the term "high street chic" having being applied to her understated style[4]. Her work as the head of Smythson of Bond Street has recently won her a British Glamour Magazine Award for Best Accessory Designer. She has been noted as turning the company around and establishing it as a fashionable and popular brand.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Report on Samantha Cameron in The Telegraph
- ^ Births England and Wales 1984-2006
- ^ "Cameron's eldest son Ivan dies". BBC News. 25 February 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7909562.stm. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
- ^ See, for example, London Lite, 2 October 2006
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