The latest issue of Vogue is out on Monday, and contains a "rare" interview with Samantha Cameron. The bit reporting that the luxury goods company she heads has already had 5,000 orders for a £1,500 bag makes me sad for humanity, but the prime minister's wife comes across as surprisingly normal. Here are five things we have learned about her:
• Sam gets annoying calls from her partner when she's at work too. "I can't talk now," she says when the PM rings. ("... It doesn't matter, does it?")
• Accidentally leaving their daughter in a pub was, apparently, her fault. "I was doing a sweep of gloves, hats and I forgot to sweep the loos where she was."
• She has a fashionable taste for grey walls – "other colours stand out so well against grey" – and nu folk: Laura Marling and "First Aid Kit. Terrible name, but they're brilliant."
• She has a sense of humour. Well, maybe. "I love a bit of accounting. There's something very satisfying about making the books balance."
• On landing her job at Smythson: "Eventually I persuaded them to employ me ... about a year later they made me creative director". So she's clearly a determined character – but at least that's preferable to her usual image as demure wife. Regardless of how I feel about £1,500 bags.
