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When my mum (Elsie Regan) was pregnant with me during the war, she went to see the priest at her local church in St Albans. She went into labour, and I was born in the church before the ambulance could get there!

When I was three months old, we moved to Streatham and I was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. One day, my parents went shopping and my mum put me in the pram outside the butchers’ shop while she went to get some meat. The shop was hit by a bomb while my mum was in there. She rushed outside to me. I was covered in broken glass, but perfectly safe. I had been asleep before the bomb hit. Doctors said that if my eyes had been open I would have been blinded. Maybe I was protected by angels?

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