Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor
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Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (born 1948) is an English
England
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 businesswoman who is the CEO of OKA Direct, a home furnishings design company. Prior to joining OKA Direct, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London.

Her daughter Samantha
Samantha Cameron
Samantha Gwendoline Cameron , often known simply as "Sam Cam", is a British business executive and wife of David Cameron, the current Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....

 is married to British Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

.

Background

She was born Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones, the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife Patricia David "Pandora" Clifford. Her mother was married secondly in 1961 to The Hon. Michael Astor
Michael Langhorne Astor
The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor was a British Conservative Party politician and fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne, both Members of Parliament....

, based in London. Her paternal grandparents were Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of Reuters
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, and the novelist Enid Bagnold, Lady Jones
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE , known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor....

. Her mother Pandora Clifford was the daughter of The Hon. Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford GCMG CB
Order of the Bath
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 (son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, of Chudleigh in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1672 for Thomas Clifford...

, a descendant of King Charles II of England
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

) by his wife Alice Devin Gundry.

Marriages

  1. Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet; two daughters (including Samantha Cameron
    Samantha Cameron
    Samantha Gwendoline Cameron , often known simply as "Sam Cam", is a British business executive and wife of David Cameron, the current Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....

    , wife of British Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron
    David Cameron
    David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

    )
  2. William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
    William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
    William Waldorf Astor, 4th Viscount Astor is a British businessman and politician who sits as an elected hereditary peer in the House of Lords.-Biography:...

    1976; two sons and a daughter

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