Samantha Cameron
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Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (born 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 Sheffield, 8th Baronet by his first marriage to Annabel 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 Bristol University.
She married David Cameron on 1 June 1996 in Oxfordshire. The couple have three children: Ivan, Nancy and Arthur. Ivan was born with cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy.
She is the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street, a stationery firm.
