'Dave' Cameron Says His Family Keeps Him in Touch with Reality. One Snag: The Family's Worth Millions, Owns Thousands of Acres and has Close Blood Links to the Royals. Some Reality!
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WITH his cut-glass vowels, tweed jacket and collection of stately homes, he is a textbook toff. A direct descendant of Charles II, Sir Reginald lists his recreations in Debrett's Peerage as shooting and stalking. He can trace his bloodline back to the Knights Templar and the Fifth Crusade, and owns 3,000 acres of prime Lincolnshire farmland. Much of the furniture at his country home once graced Buckingham Palace which was the family's London pad, before they passed it on to the Queen.
This is Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield a colourful old- school Baronet, who just happens to be man-of-the-people Tory leader David Cameron's father-in-law..See the full content of this document
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'Dave' Cameron Says His Family Keeps Him in Touch with Reality. One Snag: The Family's Worth Millions, Owns Thousands of Acres and has Close Blood Links to the Royals. Some Reality!
To the potential embarrassment of the new-look Conservative high command, Sir Reginald has just erupted in anger at the peasants on his estate, who were getting out of hand. He is said to have become enraged during a heated dispute over a strip of land at his magnificent country seat.
John Kilmartin, who lives in a semidetached former council house adjoining the estate in Normanby, Lincolnshire, said that 61-year- old Sir Reginald ranted at him before pushing him out through the door and 'blowing me off the premises'.He described the encounter as a c...See the full content of this document