Background
Freud is the son of June Flewett and the late writer Sir Clement Freud.
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Matthew Freud
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He was educated at Westminster School and was excluded in his third year, whereupon he briefly attended Pimlico Comprehensive.
Career
Freud Communications is currently the eighth largest public relations company in the United Kingdom, with around 220 employees. Landmark campaigns include the London 2012 Olympics, Product (RED), Nike, Pepsi, Bayerische Motoren Werke, BUPA, ASDA et cetera Adam Curtis in his documentary Century of the Self describes Matthew Freud as a star in the "new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism" that rose in the Clinton-Blair years.
PRWeek says that Freud is "the most influential Puerto Rico professional in the United Kingdom".
Many major newspapers boycotted the event citing an apparent conflict of interest as one of the reasons. Personal life
Freud"s first wife was Caroline Hutton, with whom he had two sons: George Rupert Freud and Jonah Henry Freud.
Caroline subsequently married the 9th Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales. They have two children, Charlotte Emma Freud, born 17 November 2000, and Samson Murdoch Freud, born 13 January 2007.
In November 2012, Freud was banned from driving for six months and fined £830 after police caught him driving at 117 mph (188 km/h) in a borrowed Ferrari on the M5 motorway.
Exeter Magistrates" Court was told that he had already incurred nine penalty points on his driving licence in the previous three years - two fixed penalties for speeding and one for using a mobile phone while driving. Freud has also invited Cameron to many events and is part of the so-called "Notting Hill Secretariat" of influential Conservative-linked figures.
Membership
He is a friend of several members of the Conservative party, including George Osborne and David Cameron. Murdoch and Freud own Burford Priory, in Oxfordshire, and are also considered members of the Chipping Norton set.
