It was a touching moment that charmed the nation. As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge walked into Westminster Abbey on Wednesday evening, their attention was drawn to a seven-year-old boy waiting shyly in the aisle.
Rosy-cheeked, and dressed neatly in a shirt and blazer, little Tony Hudgell beamed as the Royal couple crouched down for several minutes to chat to him about his favourite Christmas carols.
That it was a special moment for Tony, and a very proud one for his adoptive parents Mark and Paula, who looked on tearfully, was clear to anyone.
Paula describes it as ‘magical’.
For few boys have had to fight to survive as much as Tony has in his short life. Visible below his smart shorts were Tony’s prosthetic limbs, which he wears after having both legs amputated when he was only three.
Tony Hudgell beamed as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge crouched down to chat to him about his favourite Christmas carols at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday evening
His story is shocking. He was six weeks old when, neglected by his birth parents and suffering from a catalogue of appalling,…