Yes, and here’s the Mizens with Kate McCann, hugging her. Such lovely people.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276595/Prince-Charles-joins-Mizens-McCanns-memorial-service-child-victims.html
SnipMrs McCann wept as Mrs Mizen described her last minutes with Jimmy and how she had always told him she loved him.
She was personally invited by Mrs Mizen because ‘they were both mothers who had lost their children'.
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Mrs Mizen said: ‘To all the mothers, take your babies and your children in your arms every day and tell them how much you love them.
‘We told Jimmy how much we loved him on his birthday the day before he died and he told us how much he loved us – it was a beautiful thing.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276595/Prince-Charles-joins-Mizens-McCanns-memorial-service-child-victims.htmlAbsolutely heartbreaking and totally alien to the sentiments of divisiveness epitomised by threads such as this one.
Apparently there is no hierarchy along the lines of 'the deserving poor' V 'the undeserving poor' as far as the parents who have suffered the unimaginable loss of a child are concerned.
It appears they are all fellow travellers on the rest of their journey through life and each one recognises some part of the anguish suffered by the others.
I don't think there is any contest among the bereaved for the bitter sweet recognition their contribution to society has received. Which for me makes this thread markedly more insidious than most.
As epitomised by Mrs Mizen's invitation to Kate McCann and the close contact shared with Peter Lawrence there is no rancour there ... only a basic understanding and supportive solidarity between members of a club not as exclusive as it should be and one which none of us would wish to be members of.