Who on earth would carry a Faberge egg in their handbag?

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And a £2m watch in a pub in Central London?! I’m sure someone will come on here and tell me I’m victim blaming but wtf was she thinking?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/25/faberge-egg-stolen-london-soho-pub

Why you would take it to the pub is beyond me, and not have the tightest grip on your handbag for the whole visit. Imagine how she felt when she realised her bag was stolen! Sickening.

Ha! That’s the first thing I thought too!

I bet the thief didnt know what he'd landed, it looks rather out of his league😂

i never go anywhere without mine…..

Yes, lets all blame her for taking her handbag into a pub, and not the low-life scum who stole it.

It doesn't matter what was in the bag. Women should not be made to feel responsible for having crimes committed against them.

😂😂😂

Nah, I think that’s taking it to the extreme.

She did a stupid thing.

I read that they belonged to the brewery she was a brand ambassador for, so maybe she was a on a work trip, but surely they wouldn't let her take several million quid of specially designed stuff in her handbag to a pub without a heavy or two in attendance. Really strange.

Nobody is blaming the victim here and I don't think it's wrong to speculate as to why someone would be carrying a Faberge egg of all things to the boozers

Hmmm wonder if shes in on it and it's an insurance scam of some sort. I mean, I'm no victim blamer but that was bloody stuipid.

Unless she's got dementia or something.

I’m very surprised the company who owns the egg (her employer) don’t have stricter security!!

At my work we have very strict rules on our laptops and if I ever have mine with me i keep it next to me. Can’t imagine how sick I would feel if I was carrying a faberge egg around!!

My thoughts too. I would want an armed guard if I was carrying that around, especially in London.

So it was a work Fabergé egg? I'm so confused by this tbh. Was she in the pub for work and the egg was somehow needed? Or was she just taking the egg out and about on her daily business, as you do?

Indeed.

Maybe her employer set her up. The whole thing sounds really odd.

That’s what bras are for!

Exactly right..... I can't believe she just stuck it in her bag, and was allowed to do so!

I wonder why a craft whiskey company has a faberge egg

the thief was probably shitting himself when he saw it - fencing a phone or a watch is one thing but seeing that egg he must have realised the police would investigate

Don’t we all have a work Faberge egg? I know I have one as well as my personal one.

Well, if she’s the director of premium brands for the company, and the loot belongs to the company, not the owner of the handbag, I assume they were being brought back from a photoshoot or something? (The company has some bad taste ultra-premium whiskey collection that comes with Celtic knot Fabergé eggs and rose gold watches, aimed at US millionaires.) Even then, you’d think you’d get a cab and put it all back in the safe at work, wouldn’t you?

Yeah lots of people think I have big boobs, but it’s just my Fabergé eggs giving me a boost.

That company does stupidly expensive ‘collections’ where you get a Celtic-themed Fabergé egg and rose gold watch along with your premium whiskey. Aimed ( apparently very successfully) at US bazilionaires with a soft spot for Ireland.

I wonder whether any insurance on it and the watch (both owned by the business) would be void given the total lack of security about how they were being transported around.

If I had massively expensive small items in my bag, that didn’t even belong to me, I would never let it go and be tightly gripping it with both hands at all times! I would find it so stressful.

Good point on the insurance

Imagine the tariff on that…

Very stupid. She could have lost it and that would have totally been on her. Not blaming her for being a victim of theft but saying she’s stupid because of what else could have happened