Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (born 1948) is an English socialite is known as the former owner of a jewellery business. Her daughter Samantha is married to British Conservative Party leader David Cameron. Annabel Astor is the director of the OKA Direct, a home furnishings design company. Prior to joining KAP Direct, she was until recently the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London.
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 Michael Astor. based in London. Her father was the son of Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of Reuters, and the novelist Enid Bagnold). Her mother Pandora Clifford was the daughter of Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford GCMG CB and his wife Alice Devin Gundry; her maternal grandfather was the son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, a descendant of King Charles II of England.
Marriages
- Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet; two daughters (including Samantha Cameron, wife of Tory leader David Cameron)
- William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor 1976; two sons and a daughter
