Queen’s stationer in animal cruelty row

by kittymowmow on July 16, 2008

Smythson, the Queen’s stationer, has been criticised for selling luxury leather gifts using the skins of rare lizards.

The Bond Street stationer, which employs Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Conservative leader David Cameron, is reportedly selling at least a dozen products made from the hides of wild reptiles for between £250 and £1,200.

Most of its collection of wallets, bags, purses and notepads are made from the hides of animals such as pigs, calfs, farmed ostriches and alligators.

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