Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (, formerly Sheffield; born 14 August 1948), is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of

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, a home furnishings design company.Retail Week
/ref> Before co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. Her daughter

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is married to former British prime minister and Conservative Party leader

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Background

She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford. She was educated at

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. Her mother was married secondly in 1961 to the Hon.

Michael Langhorne Astor The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (10 April 1916 – 28 February 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Michael Astor was born on 10 April 1916. He was the fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, and Nancy Wit ...

, based in London. Her paternal grandparents were Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of

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, and the novelist

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. Her mother Patricia was the daughter of the Hon. Sir

Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford Captain Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford (3 July 1890 – 6 October 1969) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator, born in New Zealand, where his parents had moved in an unsuccessful attempt at sheep-farming. His parents were William Hug ...

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, CB (son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th

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. The title was created as "Clifford of Chudleigh" rather than simply "Clifford" to differentiate ...

, a descendant of King

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) by his wife Alice Devin Gundry.

Marriages

She married

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(later Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet) on 11 November 1969, and they were divorced in 1974. They have two daughters: * Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield (born 18 April 1971), who married

on 1 June 1996. They have four children. * Emily Julia Sheffield (born 1973), who married Tom Mullion in 2002. They have two sons. She remarried

William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor William Waldorf Astor III, 4th Viscount Astor (born 27 December 1951) is an English businessman and politician who sits as a Conservative hereditary Lord Temporal in the House of Lords. He is a member of the Astor family, which is known for ...

, on 14 January 1976. They have three children: *The Honourable Flora Katherine Astor (7 June 1976), who married Alexander Rycroft in September 2006 and had three children. *The Honourable William Waldorf "Will" Astor (18 January 1979), who married Lohralee Stutz on 5 September 2009 and had four children. *The Honourable James Jacob Astor (born 1981), who married Victoria Hargreaves on 13 September 2014 and had three children.

References

External links

Interview in the ''Daily Telegraph''
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