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The Resilience of Jeremy Hayward
Your late husband Jeremy Hayward was this legendary figure in Whitehall cabinet secretary for multiple prime ministers and then he died very sadly in 2018 of lung cancer. Did you feel that the childhood you'd had gave you some kind of reserves or resilience to deal with that because it must have been so hard nursing him towards the ends of his life and then dealing with his death as well? I mean I do think that the childhood that I had gave me a kind of inner resilience and I knew I had to draw on it at the point at which he was diagnosed my children were 14 15 the twins and Johnny was 16 so they were still all at home and around home and so I knew that I had to