Samantha Cameron

Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (née Sheffield; born 18 April 1971) is an English businesswoman and wife of David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Until 13 May 2010 Cameron was the creative director of stationers Smythson of Bond Street. She took on a part-time consultancy role after her husband became Prime Minister.

Early life

Samantha Cameron is the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet (a landowner descended from King Charles II of England) and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. She is the great-granddaughter of Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Berkeley Sheffield, and Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago, who was a descendant of Charles II, and of the author and playwright Enid Bagnold. Sir Bede was the father of her maternal grandmother, Patricia Clifford. One of the first Duke's Buckingham and Normanby's illegitimate sons, Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, inherited the baronetcy after the death of the second Duke without legitimate heirs. Sir Reginald and Annabel married on 11 November 1969. Her sister Emily Julia Sheffield was born in 1973; the couple divorced in 1974. Annabel later remarried to William Waldorf Astor III, nephew of her own stepfather Michael Langhorne Astor. They reside at Ginge Manor in Oxfordshire.