Monty Don wife: How Sarah Don felt 'invisible' despite doing the work 'It was humiliating'

But while speaking of their co-creation in their book The Jewel Garden, Sarah opened up about the “humiliation” she, the trained jeweller, suffered alongside super-salesman Monty.

“I would spend months working on a creation, drawing, refining, going backward and forwards to the factory, checking samples, sorting out publicly,” she wrote.

“It was always a collaboration, though the factory owner who made up our jewellery only seems to listen to Montagu.”

She added: “I was invisible.”