Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (Jones, formerly Sheffield; born 14 August 1948), is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of OKA, a home furnishings design company.
Before co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London.
Her daughter Samantha is married to current Foreign Secretary David Cameron, formerly British prime minister, Conservative Party leader and president of Alzheimer's Research UK.
She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford.
She was educated at Lycée Français de Londres.
1961
Her mother was married secondly in 1961 to the Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor, based in London.
Her paternal grandparents were Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of Reuters, and the novelist Enid Bagnold.
1969
She married Reginald Sheffield (later Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet) on 11 November 1969, and they were divorced in 1974.
They have two daughters:
1976
She remarried William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, on 14 January 1976.
They have three children:
2010
Her mother Patricia was the daughter of the Hon. Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, GCMG, CB (son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, a descendant of King Charles II of England) by his wife Alice Devin Gundry.
