CHIPPING NORTON CHUM OF PM AND REBEKAH BROOKS
ROSE ASTOR’S brother Tom, 42, — also Sam Cam’s step- cousin — farms at Merriscourt Farm, Oxfordshire, where he set up a community of artists and boutique businesses that attract wealthy buyers from London. He was previously in the art market and the world of historic racing cars.
It was at his 2012 Christmas party that David Cameron was spotted chatting in a corner with Rebekah Brooks — she bought a £3,000 painting at Merriscourt a few years ago.
He is friends with the former News International chief ’ s husband, Charlie Brooks, and the two can be found drinking at the Kingham Plough, watering hole of choice for the Chipping Norton set and where regulars include PR guru Matthew Freud and his wife Elisabeth Murdoch and rocker-turned-gentleman-farmer Alex James of Blur.