Bartamaha (Nairobi):- They both set out this morning looking calm and professional. But there is no doubting that Samantha Cameron and Miriam Clegg now have a very different role to play as fully signed-up members of the First Wives’ Club.
Samantha, 39, celebrated her first day as First Lady, hiding her growing baby bump in a maternity dress she borrowed from a friend, teamed with a grey Joseph jacket, Russell and Bromley flat pumps and a tote bag made Smythson (where, conveniently, she works).
Meanwhile the 41-year-old Spanish lawyer wife of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was sporting a sleek new bob and looked polished this morning on her way to work with a make-up free complexion and wearing a beige trench, black pants and flat pumps.

Both have very different images. Beaming Samantha, who drove the children to school in her people carrier but later in the morning was driven to Downing Street, adopted a far higher profile in the election campaign.
The pair will now, rather like their husbands, have to get to know each other a little bit better as they attend official engagements together.
Throughout the campaign, SamCam – like the other leader’s wives Sarah Brown and Mrs Clegg – has served to show her husband’s softer side and reveal more about his personal life.
And her pregnancy – the Camerons are expecting their fourth child in September – has not been an obstacle to style.
Stylist Ceril Campbell who runs workshops through discoverthenewyou.co.uk, said Samantha has an innate sense of style which allowed her to look good without the help of designer labels.
She said: ‘She understands fashion and she understands what is needed when you’ve become a brand yourself to be appropriate for that brand.

She has a knack of looking good. I think that is just in you. You can improve someone’s style but you can’t thrust it upon them.’
Old modelling shots of Samantha came to light two months ago, revealing her more vampish side and prompting tabloid headlines of ‘Move over Carla Bruni’.
Posing for a female designer friend, in one shot she donned a sheepskin dress and knee-high boots to lie on the floor cuddling a kitten.
But SamCam insisted she was not ‘permanently glamorous’.

In an interview with Grazia she said: ‘It is definitely very stressful trying to get to work and the kids off to school on time, while spending longer on your make-up etc, and most importantly remembering to pick the cereal out of your teeth before facing the photographers outside.’
Samantha gave her first television interview to ITV’s Trevor McDonald in March, echoing Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah in revealing personal details about her husband.
She said Mr Cameron was ‘definitely not perfect’ and had ‘lots of very irritating habits’ such as being messy around the house.

But she added: ‘We’ve been together for 18 years now and we’ve been through some fairly tough times, and I can honestly say that I don’t think in all that time he’s ever let me down.’
As a young girl at St Helen and St Katharine independent girls’ school in Oxfordshire, Samantha was called Violet because she was so shy and retiring.
One who knows her well said: ‘You can certainly tell when Sam is angry. “How dare you..?” is a bit of a catchphrase when she’s infuriated. She can be very icy with people if she’s formed a negative opinion of them. And she does have a very strong sense of what she thinks of people, what is acceptable in the modern age and what is right and wrong.’
But while previous Downing Street wives may have made no bones about voicing these views – Cherie Blair even took to sitting in on Cabinet meetings – that is not Samantha’s style.
According to one insider: ‘She’ll have her say but she’s likely to be rather more subtle than some of the spouses in recent years. Odd as it might sound, Sam’s more in the mould of Denis Thatcher than any of the recent wives.

‘There’s a misconception that Sam is somehow politically naive. She’s not. She’s just not terribly engaged in political ideology and the minutiae of policies or strategy. Neither was Denis.
‘You see her eyes sometimes glazing over across the dinner table when they’re entertaining and talk turns to politics. She might have to work on that a bit. But in terms of actual details she doesn’t see that meddling in that is her role

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Source:-Dailay Mail

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