Family
A Marlborough College school friend of David Cameron's sister Clare, the pair first met at a party at the Cameron's family house when Samantha was 16. After graduating from Bristol School of Creative Arts, Clare invited her on a Cameron family holiday in Tuscany, Italy, from where the romance with David started. The couple married on 1 June 1996 at the Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury, East Hendred, Oxfordshire, five years before he became an MP.
The couple have had four children: Ivan Reginald Ian (8 April 2002 Hammersmith and Fulham, London – 25 February 2009, Paddington, London); Nancy Gwen Beatrice (born 19 January 2004, Westminster, London), Arthur Elwen (born 14 February 2006, Westminster) and Florence Rose Endellion (born 24 August 2010, Cornwall). Ivan was born with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy and died at the age of six at St Mary's Hospital, London. Florence Cameron's third given name, Endellion, is taken from the Cornish village of St Endellion. The couple's fourth child was born early while the Camerons were on holiday in Cornwall.
Samantha Cameron has a dolphin tattoo on her ankle.
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