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article.
'As Chrissie Douglas, the jeweller who supplied the pearl that I crushed and drank put it, "Pearls appeal
to the better part of human nature."'
In relation to the drinking of a pearl, as Cleopatra did, Steve King also says 'This I was able to witness at first hand thanks to Coleman Douglas Pearls, the specialist London jewellers, who supplied a pearl.'