Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her

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Describing their daily routine while on holiday with seven friends – including married couple David and Fiona Payne – she wrote: “We would have breakfast in the apartment, drop Madeleine, Sean and Amelie at their clubs and head to the courts, behind the Tapas bar building, for our hour-long group tennis lessons. So at the time I just assumed it was a drink spillage that had escaped our attention, and that might well be all it was.

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Madeleine McCann was abducted in Praia da Luz, Portugal on Thursday, 3 May 2007. Kate and Gerry McCann established 'Madeleine's Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned' in response to the many generous donations that started to flood in from the general public who were wanting to help the search for their daughter in some way. As there had been no police force in the world actively looking for Madeleine since July 2008, the fund enabled a small team of committed and experienced people to investigate Madeleine's disappearance. It continues to support the search and also runs awareness campaigns in several countries, to ensure the public know that Madeleine is still missing, and to encourage them to remain vigilant. They favoured the same kind of holidays we did – we’ve never been interested in swanky hotels, preferring a reputable resort with good sports facilities and, since the arrival of the children, plenty for them to do, too. Gerry and I took the kids everywhere – in fact, I’d only ever been apart from them for one night – so they were used to travelling.” The Covid pandemic has made this year even more difficult for many reasons but thankfully the investigation to find Madeleine and her abductor has continued.” We usually met up with the children and nannies for tea, along with the rest of our friends and then went off to the play area again for some fun before the kids’ bedtime.”If only foresight came as easily to us as hindsight. Within hours, the explanation for this would seem hugely important and so haunted have I been ever since by Madeleine’s words that morning.” Inspired by The Great British Bake Off, Nancy launched her own wedding cake business - although she is now not allowed to apply for the show

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Children often get a bit fractious around bedtime, though I had no recollection of any tears from either Madeleine or Sean before they settled the previous evening.Kate McCann's personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for her daughter, revised and updated for this edition. The suspect is one of 600 people that detectives on the inquiry, known as Operation Grange, originally looked at. If something had happened to make her cry, it was pretty unlikely that she wouldn’t tell us about it, assuming she remembered what it was.