Samantha Cameron

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name = Samantha Cameron

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Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (neé Sheffield) (born 18 April, 1971) 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. In October 2007, she launched a bag she had designed, which she called 'Nancy' after her daughter.

Early life

Born Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, she is the eldest daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet, an Old Etonian landowner and three times a descendant from King Charles II of England, by his first marriage to Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. Cameron's parents split up after five years of marriage and her mother married again to another Old Etonian, William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, a minister in John Major's government, and she is now the Viscountess Astor.

Cameron grew up on the convert|300|acre|km2|sing=on 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 prestigious 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, via his sister, Clare Cameron.

Marriage and children

Samantha married David Cameron on 1 June 1996 in Oxfordshire. The couple have three children: Ivan Reginald Ian (born 8 April 2002), Nancy Gwendoline (born 19 January 2004) and Arthur Elwen (born 14 February 2006). Ivan was born with cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy. They have homes in both Kensington and the Village of Dean, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Ancestors

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.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4500048.stm BBC Profile: Samantha Cameron]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4712264.stm Birth of Samantha Cameron's third child]