22-537: Samantha Gwendoline Cameron, Baroness Cameron of Chipping Norton ( née Sheffield ; born 18 April 1971), is an English businesswoman. Until 2010, she was the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street . She is married to David Cameron , who served as Foreign Secretary from 2023 to 2024 and was formerly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. She took on a part-time consultancy role at Smythson after he became prime minister. Cameron
44-577: A man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over the e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,
66-667: A British Glamour Magazine Award for Best Accessory Designer in 2009. She took on a part-time creative consultancy role at Smythson after her husband became prime minister. From 2011 to 2015 Cameron was on the judging panel for the Vogue Fashion Fund alongside Victoria Beckham , Alexandra Shulman , and Lisa Armstrong . She was an ambassador for the British Fashion Council playing a prominent role in London Fashion Week . In 2013, Cameron
88-650: A small archive collection dedicated to notable users of Smythson products throughout the brand's history. However, the store closed its doors in April 2024, after it already closed the boutique in Westbourne Grove in January 2024. (source: https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/article/smythson-quits-bond-street-to-cut-costs-zm9hf9sxf ) In the 1950s, the John Menzies Group acquired Smythson, which
110-512: Is a distant cousin of model and actress Cara Delevingne . The father of Samantha's maternal grandmother, Patricia Clifford, was Sir Bede Clifford , a descendant of King Charles II . Her great-grandparents also include the writer Enid Bagnold and her husband Sir Roderick Jones , head of Reuters . Through her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet, she is a fourth cousin of Pamela Harriman , first wife of Winston Churchill 's son Randolph Churchill . This Sheffield ancestor
132-638: Is active for several charitable causes, and in June 2013 became a patron for Revitalise. Cameron has volunteered for Dress for Success, a nonprofit organisation that gives free clothes and advice about job interviews to unemployed women. In October 2012, she held a benefit for them at Number 10. On 11 December 2015, it was announced Cameron, one of sixteen celebrities, to participate in the Great Sport Relief Bake Off , which aired in 2016 as part of that year's Sport Relief fundraiser. Cameron
154-515: Is an ambassador for the charity Save the Children . In March 2013, after visiting Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Cameron said: "As a mother, it is horrifying to hear the harrowing stories from the children I met today, no child should ever experience what they have. With every day that passes, more children and parents are being killed, more innocent childhoods are being smashed to pieces." Cameron
176-507: Is credited with coining the phrase "There is such a thing as society; it's just not the same thing as the state". This has been said several times by David Cameron , including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative leadership election in 2005 . It is seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher 's famous comment, frequently misquoted as " there is no such thing as society ". Samantha and David Cameron are members of
198-450: Is the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet , and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones . Sir Reginald and Annabel married on 11 November 1969. The couple divorced in 1974, and Annabel later remarried to William Waldorf Astor III , nephew of her own stepfather Michael Langhorne Astor , with whom she had three more children. Her father also had three more children by his second wife Victoria Penelope Walker. Samantha Sheffield's birth
220-416: Is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote
242-479: The Chipping Norton set . Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in
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#1732801448997264-512: The Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née
286-698: The West of England . She and David Cameron married on 1 June 1996 at the Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury, East Hendred , England , five years before he was first elected as MP for Witney at the 2001 general election . The couple have had four children: Ivan Reginald Ian Cameron (8 April 2002, Hammersmith and Fulham , London – 25 February 2009, Paddington, London), Nancy Gwen Beatrice Cameron (born 19 January 2004, Westminster , London), Arthur Elwen Cameron (born 14 February 2006, Westminster) and Florence Rose Endellion Cameron (born 24 August 2010, Cornwall ). Ivan
308-666: The company created the first 'Featherweight' diary, enabling diaries to be carried about. Most of the company's leather goods are now made in Italy . In the United Kingdom, Smythson has London boutiques on Sloane Street , as well as concessions in Harrods , Selfridges and Heathrow Airport Terminals 4 and 5. Smythson's other international location is at Le Bon Marché in Paris . The Flagship Store in New Bond Street hosted
330-420: The disposal of their stake in the business. Besides maximising value for themselves, the shareholders wanted to find a buyer who would protect the heritage of the brand and offer the management team the opportunity to continue to grow. Kelso Place Asset Management and King Street Partners, backed by a consortium of high-net-worth individuals, were identified as the preferred bidders. Sarah Elton commented that she
352-539: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . Smythson Frank Smythson Limited , commonly known as Smythson ( / s m aɪ θ s ə n / ), is a British manufacturer and retailer of luxury stationery , leather goods , diaries , and fashion products based in London , England. The company's founder, Frank John Smythson,
374-516: Was also operating under the name 'Pendragon' at the time. In 1998, Smythson's then managing director Sarah Elton led a management buyout backed by a private investor. Since then, the business has grown and the company is now operating outlets in the UK, US and France, as well as online through their website. In 2004, Smythson recorded £12 million in sales revenues. In early 2005, Smythson shareholders appointed Cavendish Corporate Finance Limited to advise on
396-524: Was an MP for the same constituency as Thomas Corbett , also an ancestor. Cameron's family also own a large Yorkshire estate called Sutton Park . Cameron initially went to St Helen and St Katharine , though she sat A-Levels at Marlborough College . She did an Art Foundation course at Camberwell College of Arts and went on to study Fine Art at the School of Creative Arts , part of the University of
418-494: Was born in 1847 at Holborn and was a son of Marcus Alfred Smythson, a professor of music. He opened his first store on 29 September 1887 at 133 New Bond Street in London. Smythson's flagship store is located nearby at 131-132 New Bond Street. Smythson's clients have included the current British royal family , Queen Victoria , many UK politicians and prime ministers, Sir Edmund Hillary , Madonna , and Grace Kelly . In 1908,
440-762: Was born with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy and died at the age of six at St Mary's Hospital, London . Florence Cameron's third given name, Endellion, is taken from the Cornish village of St Endellion ; she was born early at the Royal Cornwall Hospital while the Camerons were on holiday in Cornwall. Cameron was a creative director at the British accessories brand Smythson of Bond Street , from 1997 until May 2010, winning
462-548: Was named in Tatler 's Top 10 Best Dressed List. In 2015, Cameron was named In Vanity Fair 's International Best-Dressed List. In 2017 Cameron founded Cefinn, a womenswear brand based in London that launched its first collection in February of that year. The name Cefinn (pronounced 'Seffin') is an acronym of her four children's names, Ivan, Nancy, Elwen, and Florence, between the first and last letters of Cameron. Cameron
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#1732801448997484-577: Was registered in Paddington , London. She grew up on the 300-acre (120-hectare) estate of Normanby Hall , five miles (8.0 km) north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire , though not in the Hall itself, the family having moved out in 1963, some eight years before her birth. Cameron is a great-granddaughter of Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Berkeley Sheffield and, through him,
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