There's a post on Michelle Mone's Instagram grid from November 2021, just a few days before she tied the knot with her billionaire second husband Doug Barrowman, which reads as strangely prophetic today. It's a picture of the Tory peer and former lingerie tycoon standing in a garden, her hair in a perfect signature blow-dry, stood amongst several pictures of herself smiling in glamorous locations around the world, from the south of France, the Maldives and St Barts to the snooker room in her plush £120m home set on 37 acres on the Isle of Man.
"Never get too big for your boots!" reads the caption, alongside a couple of her go-to aspirational hashtags, #staygrounded #neversettle, in reference to the rags-to-riches story she has proudly told throughout her career: of how that little girl who grew up in the poverty-stricken east end of Glasgow, with no hot running water and a "cupboard" for a bedroom, left school at 15 and went onto become one of the most successful businesswomen in the UK.
