FLASHBACK: ‘Dave’ Cameron says he’s in touch with reality…but with so much wealth and blue blood you have to wonder
Daily Mail >> Originally Published 15th June 2007
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.