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Florence Cameron is one among simply three infants to be born to a serving British prime minister in 150 years
When Carrie Symonds gave beginning to a child boy, he unknowingly turned a member of a really unique membership.
The new child son of Boris Johnson, whose identify has but to be made public, is simply the third child born to a serving prime minister in dwelling reminiscence.
In 2000 got here Leo, the fourth little one of Labour prime minister Tony Blair and his spouse, Cherie. Ten years later, there was Florence, born early throughout a household summer season vacation in Cornwall to Conservative PM David and Samantha Cameron.
It’s a membership meaning dwelling the early years within the beating coronary heart of a political machine, with bodyguards by your aspect and a police officer outdoors your entrance door.
For some who expertise it, it might come to outline you. For others, like Florence, it’d simply wash over you.
When selling his memoirs, For The Report, final yr, Mr Cameron mentioned Florence, who was solely 5 when the household left Downing Road in 2016, was hazy about his time in energy.
He instructed the Cheltenham Literature Competition his daughter had requested him: “Daddy, is it true, had been you truly the prime minister?”
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Considered one of Florence’s center names – Endellion – comes from the Cornish village of St Endellion
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Florence as soon as tried to cease her father leaving on enterprise by sitting in one among his pink bins and telling him: “Take me with you”
By the point Leo Blair turned one, he had held his party in a swimming pool at Chequers, the prime minister’s official nation residence; travelled 14,000 miles earlier than he may stroll, and was within the eye of a political storm earlier than he may discuss.
He made his first “public look” when he was simply weeks previous.
However quickly after he was on the centre of a row over privateness, when “unauthorised” images of him had been utilized by newspapers regardless of pleas by the Blairs.
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In Cherie Blair’s memoirs, Talking For Myself, she mentioned Leo was conceived throughout a go to to Balmoral, the Queen’s residence in Scotland
On the time, Tony Blair described how having a child in Downing Road saved him within the “actual world”.
“I might be about to depart Downing Road for Prime Minister’s Query Time, my head might be filled with 50 questions that the Opposition may ask me that I’ve no straightforward reply to, and I nip again as much as see Leo,” he instructed the Sunday Folks.
“And all of it comes into perspective. He is taking part in along with his toys and it’s important to take pleasure in and savour that and it is a good actuality test, is not it?”
Cherie Blair, mom of Leo who’s now 19, mentioned she was positive Ms Symonds, 32, would get “the perfect care”.
In an interview on ITV’s Lorraine earlier than the beginning was introduced, Ms Blair mentioned: “I believe for everybody being pregnant right now, with the constraints there can be on how individuals can help you, it is a tough problem however I’m positive she is going to completely get the perfect care.”
However she warned “doing it within the public eye” could be an extra pressure.
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By the point he was three months previous, Leo had met the then-US President Invoice Clinton and French President Jacques Chirac at a UN summit in New York
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Tony Blair, father to Leo, Kathryn, Euan and Nicky, has mentioned none cared whether or not he was “on the prime of the tree or the underside of the heap” which proved a “good actuality test”
Linda Blair, a scientific psychologist, mentioned staying serene could be the easiest way for first-time mum Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson to sort out any criticism within the British press.
“It isn’t a lot how they deal with it, it is how they react to it,” she mentioned.
And the excellent news for little child Johnson?
“He’ll thrive,” says Linda Blair, it doesn’t matter what the atmosphere in Downing Road.
“That little one will settle for the state of affairs – what different world do they know?”
The truth is, she says, he is the perfect age.
“I do not understand how lengthy Boris Johnson can be in workplace however he’ll most likely be out by the point it will matter, when they’re wanting to combine with friends so that will not be an issue. It may be harder for youngsters,” she says.
And of the inevitable excessive stress ranges circulating in Downing Road, she says: “Till kids are 4 or 5 their stress ranges are decided by the dad and mom’ temper so the stress ranges in Downing Road will not imply something to the kid, it’s going to be how the dad and mom react to them.”
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Ms Symonds is a first-time mom, whereas Mr Johnson is thought to have 5 different kids
The final infants born to prime ministers earlier than Leo, Florence and now child Johnson arrived greater than 150 years in the past.
Earlier than Mr Blair, Lord John Russell and spouse Woman Russell produced the final little one to be born to the workplace holder of First Lord of the Treasury – the prime minister’s official title.
Woman Russell gave beginning to 2 sons, George and Francis, throughout her husband’s first stint in workplace between 1846 and 1852.
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Lord John Russell and spouse Woman Russell had two kids throughout his time as prime minister