Wife of ex-US ambassador has a Sting in her saucy tale

FIRST, Sasha Swire caused a furore with her candid memoirs about life as the wife of a government minister. Now, Ann Bracken — who is married to Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, Lord (Robin) Renwick — is shaking up the diplomatic world with an indiscreet account of her life with the great and good in London and Washington.

American-born Lady Renwick’s amusing disclosures include being ticked off by the late James Bond star Sir Sean Connery and a relentless pursuit of the rock star Sting.

‘Invited to re-cross the Atlantic [back to Britain], the main reason I agreed to do so was to bring me closer to my long-standing idol, Sting,’ she writes in her new book, How To Break Into The White House.

‘I hopefully assumed Sting would be both accessible and not impervious to my charms, but I discovered to my distress that Trudie [Styler, his wife] keeps him on a very short leash.

‘I had a very near miss one evening at the swanky Nobu eaterie on Park Lane, only for the head waiter to throw himself into a protective position in front of Sting in the nick of time,’ recalls Bracken (right).

Bracken admits that she considered a boob job — visiting a cosmetic surgery clinic in London. ‘Confronted, as I frequently am, with ladies whose chests are slightly more provocative than my own, I headed for St John’s Wood to check out the options,’ she writes. ‘The surgeon suggested some improvement but reassured me by saying if he bumped into me on a Saturday night he would thank his lucky stars. I was so touched that I failed to think of reporting him to the British Medical Association.’

Her confrontation with Connery took place at a restaurant. ‘I found my neighbour coughing in an exaggerated fashion and trying to swat the fumes of my illicit cigarette away with his napkin,’ she says. ‘This seemed to me inappropriately squeamish behaviour for someone with a licence to kill.’