Samantha Cameron
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (born 18 April 1971) is an English business executive and wife of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
Born Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, she is the eldest daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet, three times a descendant from King Charles II of England, by his first marriage to Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (now the Viscountess Astor). Her 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 the 4th Viscount Astor. She grew up on the estate of Normanby Hall, five miles north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. She read Art at University of the West of England.
She married David Cameron on 1 June 1996 in Oxfordshire. The couple have three children: Ivan Reginald Ian (born April 8, 2002), Nancy Gwendoline (born January 19, 2004) and Arthur Elwen (born February 14, 2006). Ivan was born with cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy.
She is the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street, a stationery firm.
