UFOS - the serious new deep political research topic?

[Jan Klimkowski]

The would-be prime minister may even have had royal help in the early years. Robin Harris, head of research at Conservative Central Office when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, said Cameron was originally turned away. “He applied to the research department, but there were no spaces. Then we received a call from a royal equerry wanting to know why he had not been hired.”

Samantha Cameron is British royalty through comminglings, in the Blackadder sense. Her original family home was Buckingham Palace, when it was effectively a royal brothel.

Her Wiki entry identifies her genes as follows:

Born as Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, she is the eldest daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet, a landowner and three times a descendant from King Charles II of England, by his first marriage to Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones. Samantha's parents divorced after five years of marriage. Her mother remarried, to William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, a Minister in John Major's government, and is now styled as Viscountess Astor.

Sheffield grew up on the 300-acre (1.2 km2) estate of Normanby Hall, five miles (8 km) north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. Her family also owns a large Yorkshire estate called Sutton Park. She went to the private School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and then took her A levels at Marlborough College in Wiltshire. She did an art foundation at Camberwell College of Arts and then went on to study Fine Art at the University of the West of England. It was while she was a student there that she met David Cameron through her acquaintance with his sister, Clare Cameron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Cameron

However, the more relevant line, in terms of family wealth and privilege, is as follows:

The Sheffield Baronetcy, of Normanby in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 March 1755 for Charles Herbert Sheffield, the illegitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby. On the death of his half brother , the 2nd Duke, in 1735, he inherited the family estates including Buckingham House which was sold to George III in 1762 and Normanby Hall which latter remained the family seat until 1963. Thereafter the seat was Sutton Park, York.

The fifth Baronet served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1872. The sixth Baronet sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Brigg.

Samantha Cameron is the daughter of the eighth Baronet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Baronets

The family home was Buckingham House. Since it was situated at the end of the Mall, it was in the logically striking position for the London palace of the British royal family, when royalty's official London home was the much less prominently placed St James Palace.

George III screwed Baronet Sheffield out of the right to Buckingham House, through some legal subterfuge involving lease durations etc, and granted the Sheffields land in Yorkshire as recompense.

Buckingham House became Buckingham Palace.

Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet, who proposed to Princess Anne and married the daughter of the King's mistress, and his successors down to the present day, have done rather well by the arrangement. And perhaps that royal favour still grants influence.