Gordon Brown’s jewellery gaffe at No.10

Sarah Brown has teamed up with Astley Clarke to bring out a bracelet to raise funds for her Theirworld children’s charity. At the jewellery launch at Mondrian London, the company’s founder Bec Astley Clarke described how she first met Brown.

‘Eight years ago when Astley Clarke was a slightly smaller business, I was sitting at my desk looking at web orders that had to be dispatched that day, and I got quite excited. One of the dispatches was going to none other than number 10 Downing Street. I thought to myself  “that is so sweet, the Prime Minister has taken time out of his busy schedule to buy his wife a romantic gift from Astley Clarke”.’

Alas, on further inquiry, it turned out not to be such a romantic gesture:

‘On closer inspection, Sarah had bought herself a pair of earrings.’

Happily, the pair formed a friendship out of the purchase, with Astley Clarke putting a note in the package with her details. ‘When