SamCam’s sister calls out sex pests in her life

AS THE daughter of a baronet and sister-in-law of a Prime Minister, Emily Sheffield has enjoyed a life of gilded doors opening before her. But even she has been unable to avoid the wandering hands of older men, who, she claims, have sexually harassed her throughout her life and career.

Commenting online on the seemingly endless stream of allegations provoked by the exposure of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a sex pest and alleged rapist, Samantha Cameron’s younger sister declares: ‘I have similar stories.’

She then goes on to list some of those surprising figures from her past who have made unwanted advances on her, including a friend’s father... an ex-colleague..: ‘You name it — all old enough to be my father... It was never right — they just somehow got away with it.’

Emily, 44, declines to name names, however, but her comments have led friends and former colleagues to speculate about the identities of her tormentors.

Her first job was as a reporter with The Guardian newspaper after winning its Student Journalist of the Year award in 1995. But it’s not clear if she encountered any unwanted attention at the Left-wing newspaper or later on in her career.

Intriguingly, Emily (right) suggests that it could have been friends of her parents — the wealthy Lincolnshire landowner Sir Reginald Sheffield and his first wife, Viscountess Astor — who were to blame.

‘Lots of this happens through trusted parent “friends”,’ Emily says.

Sheffield, who was expelled from the Duchess of Cambridge’s alma mater, Marlborough College, after cannabis was found in her dormitory in a police raid, went on to become deputy editor of British Vogue.

She left the magazine earlier this year after a new editor, Edward Enninful, was appointed.

She is married to the actor Tom Mullion, who starred in the film Snow White And The Huntsman and is a co-founder of fashionable Mayfair restaurant Kitty Fisher’s.