![]() ![]() The head-scarved figure of Mrs Erdogan (wife of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan), the lilac-suited Russian Svetlana Medvedeva (wife of then President Dmitry Medvedev), Laureen Harper (wife of then Canadian PM Stephen Harper) and a confident Sarah Brown in a royal blue cardigan and skirt. The spouses all gathered in the Crush Bar. Sarah set up a morning of entertainment and lunch at the Royal Opera House and asked me to organise commemorative photographs by Mario Testino. While the various world leaders were closeted in a conference room, Sarah Brown was detailed to look after the ‘spouses’ – the gender-neutral term deliberately employed in case Angela Merkel’s husband decided to join. They were here for the G20 summit hosted by our then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Why are people, especially women, so enthralled by her? I think I know the answer, having met her in 2009 when she and her husband travelled to London for his first major international trip as President of the United States. Her beguiling memoir, Becoming, is top of the bestsellers charts on both sides of the Atlantic. She could have filled the Royal Festival Hall ten times over, where she was on stage talking to novelist Chimamande Ngozi Adichie, since tickets for the event sold out within minutes of going on sale. Michelle Obama blew into town last week, less a gentle breeze than a whirlwind of inspirational messaging. First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at The Royal Festival Hall on Monday December 3
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