Cartier and a wrangle over the Countess of Bradford's 'fake' bangle

Of all the jewellery the former Countess of Bradford has been given over the years by admirers, the piece she treasures the most is a gold Cartier love bangle she bought herself in the 1970s when she was a lowly shop assistant in the jeweller's Bond Street store.

She paid a mere 200, thanks to a staff discount Trinity diamond imitation cartier ring.

The same bracelet, a design classic bought by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Nancy and Frank Sinatra, Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen, costs 4,400 today.

So Jo Porter was understandably distressed when she suddenly discovered her beloved bauble is apparently a fake.

For the past 36 years Jo, who was married to restaurateur the Earl of Bradford, believed it was genuine, not least because it was made for her by the store's on site goldsmiths.

She insured the 18 carat accessory as the real thing for all those years.

Questions only began when she gave it as a birthday present to her future daughter in law, Lucinda Bodie, 29, who is engaged to Jo's son, Harry Bridgeman, 31.

Lucinda lost one of its distinctive screw fasteners and when Harry took it into Cartier for repair, he was told it was company policy not to touch a fake.

Says Jo, 56, now married to Old Etonian banker Philip Porter: 'I got on to Cartier immediately and explained the background.

'I have been terribly distressed by all this. I can't understand how I could have bought a piece of jewellery from such a reputable company when I was employed by them and then decades later discover it is suggested that it wasn't the real thing.'

Jo, who worked for Cartier in 1977, tells

me: 'When I bought it, they didn't have one in stock. Because I have

tiny wrists, they had to make one specially.

No competition: Friends Marina Fogle and Beverley Turner have both come up with a new antenatal project

Their famous husbands are the best of friends who rowed across the Atlantic together imitation cartier love ring diamond, and they are proud godmothers to each other's children.

But it seems that the glamorous wives of TV adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic oarsman James Cracknell have one more thing in common.

A year after mother of two Marina Fogle started the Bump Class, an upmarket antenatal advisory service, her great chum, Beverley Turner, James's wife Amulette De Cartier earring Pink Gold, is planning to set up a similar operation.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Marina says loyally: 'I don't think we're in competition.

'After all, I'm godmother to her daughter Kiki and she is godmother to our son Ludo.'

The two women became pals when their partners left them home alone for two months in 2005 while they battled across the Atlantic.

Former party planner Marina got the idea for her clinic after a difficult pregnancy with Ludo.

Beverley became interested after contributing to BBC's Bump Club radio programme about motherhood.

'I had lunch with Beverley and she told me her plans and wanted help,' says Marina.

'I'm delighted: we've only 12 spaces on our course, so there's room for other groups.'

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