Early Life
Cameron is the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet (a landowner descended from King Charles II of England) and his first wife Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. Cameron is a distant cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales. Sir Reginald and Annabel married on 11 November 1969; Samantha was born in 1971, Emily in 1973; the couple divorced in 1974. Her mother remarried William Waldorf Astor, 4th Viscount Astor. They reside at Ginge Manor.
Samantha Cameron's birth was registered in Paddington, London. She grew up on the 300-acre (121-hectare) 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.
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