Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (, formerly Sheffield; born 14 August 1948), is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of
OKA, a home furnishings design company. Before co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in
London
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.
Her daughter
Samantha is married to
David Cameron, formerly
British prime minister
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,
Conservative Party leader and president of
Alzheimer's Research UK.
Background
She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford. She was educated at
Lycée Français de Londres. Her mother was married secondly in 1961 to the Hon.
Michael Langhorne Astor, based in London. Her paternal grandparents were
Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of
Reuters
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, and the novelist
Enid Bagnold. Her mother Patricia was the daughter of the Hon. Sir
Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford,
GCMG,
CB (son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, a descendant of King
Charles II of England
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) by his wife Alice Devin Gundry.
Marriages
She married
Reginald Sheffield (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
David Cameron on 1 June 1996. They have four children.
*
Emily Julia Sheffield (born 1973), who married Tom Mullion in 2002. They have two sons.
She married
William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, 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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1948 births
Living people
British people of Welsh descent
People from Woolwich
People educated at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
English socialites
British viscountesses
British jewellery designers
20th-century English businesspeople
Annabel
Livingston family
20th-century English businesswomen
21st-century English businesswomen
21st-century English businesspeople
British women jewellers