Piers Morgan and his wife Celia Walden were burgled while they slept in their French villa on holiday.
The Good Morning Britain presenter’s wife revealed that the incident happened early on Thursday morning, shortly before the couple was due to leave the Cote d’Azur and return to the UK before quarantine rules came into place.
Celia recalled waking at 6.15am to prepare to check out of the property when she discovered her handbag on the sofa and her jewellery box lying empty beside it.
Among the stolen items were a number of sentimental pieces including an art deco ring Piers had bought her on their fifth wedding anniversary.
The journalist, who has been married to Piers since 2010, said she felt a ‘stomach-plummeting sense of violation’ at the actions of the ‘depraved and despicable, inhuman’ thieves.
‘I knew the second I walked into the sitting room that something was wrong,’ she wrote in The Telegraph.
‘The previous night had been spent getting our rented house ready for checkout – but the place was a mess.
‘My handbag was upside-down on the sofa, the box I keep my jewellery in lying empty beside it.
‘The up-turned handbag found in the sitting room had originally been on a chair in our bedroom.’
She added: ‘They must have crept in there and stood inches away from us while we slept.’
Police said they believed the thieves left the villa after hearing Celia press the snooze button on her alarm.
Piers has yet to publicly comment on the incident.
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