Dad, you’re so embarrassing!
Ex-PM Cameron is enough to make teen daughter cringe
DAVID CAMERON’S wife has revealed the couple’s teen daughter is mortified at her embarrassing dad – and still cheekily reminds him of the time he left her in a pub.
Samantha Cameron said Nancy, 13, refuses to let her ex-PM dad pick her up at the school gates.
The fashion designer said: “Even now, Dave can only pick Nancy up from a cafe far away from the school.
“She found it mortifying looking round new secondary schools as he would go into prime minister mode, shaking hands with the teachers and grilling the pupils.
“By the third visit she made him stay outside the classroom doors.
“If he gets uppity, she still reminds him about leaving her in the pub near Chequers.” In 2012, the Camerons hit the headlines when it was revealed they had left Nancy in a pub in Buckinghamshire after having a Sunday drink. The then eightyear-old spent a quarter-of-anhour at the Plough Inn at Cadsden alone before Mrs Cameron returned to collect her.
Number 10 said the couple had been “distraught” when they realised Nancy was not with them.
But the same parenting disaster is unlikely to happen now that the ex-Tory leader is out of office – and a job.
Samantha, 45, said David – who quit after the shock Brexit vote – had adapted to his new role as a house-husband.
She said: “Dave is now supporting me. I have been working 24/7 and he has been much more hands-on, cooking and doing homework, and the children are loving having him around.”
Meanwhile, the fashion entrepreneur also revealed how the death of their young son, Ivan, “overshadows everything”.
The mum said his premature death in 2009, the year before David Cameron entered No. 10, was of such magnitude that it made everything else “irrelevant” and “meaningless”.
Their first child, Ivan was born with a severe form of epilepsy and cerebral palsy and died shortly before his seventh birthday.
After his death, Samantha said she sought strength from her faith and found hosting charity events at Downing Street cathartic, although she would often be brought to tears when meeting families in similar situations.
“It’s the biggest thing in my life. Being the prime minister’s wife was just a role,” she said.
“Ivan dying is such a massive thing that everything else is irrelevant. It just overshadows everything. What goes on in the outside world becomes meaningless.
“Like anyone else in my situation, I just kept going.
“You have to deal with it because you have no choice.”