Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (, 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

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. Her daughter

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is married to

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, formerly

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, Conservative Party leader and president of

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Background

She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford. She was educated at

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. 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

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, and the novelist

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. Her mother Patricia was the daughter of the Hon. Sir

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, CB (son of William Hugh Clifford, 10th

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, a descendant of King

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) by his wife Alice Devin Gundry.

Marriages

She married Reginald Sheffield (later Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet) on 11 November 1969, and they were divorced in 1974. They have two daughters: * Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield (born 18 April 1971), who married

on 1 June 1996. They have four children. * Emily Julia Sheffield (born 1973), who married Tom Mullion in 2002. They have two sons. She married William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, on 14 January 1976. They have three children: *The Honourable Flora Katherine Astor (7 June 1976), who married Alexander Rycroft in September 2006 and had three children. *The Honourable William Waldorf "Will" Astor (18 January 1979), who married Lohralee Stutz on 5 September 2009 and had four children. *The Honourable James Jacob Astor (born 1981), who married Victoria Hargreaves on 13 September 2014 and had three children.

References

External links

Interview in the ''Daily Telegraph''
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