David Cameron is a descendent of King William IV. He was born into an extremely affluent English family. His father Ian Cameron was a stockbroker and mother Mary Fleur was a retired Justice of the Peace and daughter of Sir William Mount.

Cameron has a brother, Alexander Allan, a barrister and the Queen's Counsel and two sisters, Tania Rachel and Clare Louise.

Cameron received his primary education in Heatherdown School in Winkfield in Berkshire. He was an excellent student and because of that Cameron entered shool's top academic class almost two years early. At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire.