Houses worth £5m and shares valued at £500k...
THE Camerons own a £1.3million cottage in David’s former Oxfordshire constituency and an Edwardian four-bedroom house in upmarket Notting Hill in west London which they bought for £1.1million and is now worth £3.5million.
Samantha Cameron’s father, Sir Reginald Sheffield, is the eighth holder of a 250-year baronetcy and has a property empire worth more than £20million. The family seat is 18th-century Grade-I listed Sutton Park, near York.
Mrs Cameron owns £77,000 worth of shares in one of her father’s firms, Normanby Estate Holdings.
But it is not just her father who has great wealth. When her parents divorced, her mother Annabel married aristocrat William Astor who owns an 18,736-acre estate on Jura in Argyll. Vicountess Astor is the co-founder and chief executive of luxury furniture retailer OKA, which was valued at £30 million in 2006 and made £1.7 million profit in 2015.
Mrs Cameron herself earned a vast six-figure salary when she was the creative director at luxury brand Smythson, although she scaled back to become a creative consultant when her husband became prime minister.
In 2005 the leather goods brand was bought for £16million, leaving Mrs Cameron with an extra £437,000 windfall from her shares.
Mr Cameron’s mother Mary’s family owned a mansion in Berkshire on a 660-acre estate. The former PM’s father Ian was a wealthy businessman who came from a family of bankers. In 2007 the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Ian was worth £10million. Cameron inherited £300,000 from his father’s will in 2010.
During the six years the Camerons lived in Downing Street, the couple were renting out their London property for around £7,000 a month.