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Who was Mandy Allwood?
OCTOMUM Mandy Allwood, who lost all eight of her babies, has died aged 56 after a battle with cancer, and will be laid to rest today at a pauper’s funeral.
Mandy made headlines around the world 26 years ago when she announced that she was expecting octuplets.
Mandy with the octuplets’ father, Paul, in 1996 before they split
Mandy and her then partner Paul visit the grave on the first anniversary of the funeral
Mandy created a keepsake box for her eight babies
Mother pregnency Detail
The world was to share her grief months later, when the terrible news of her devastating loss broke.
Mandy was even personally comforted by Princess Diana.
She gave birth at 24 weeks to six boys and two girls over three days and three nights, but none of the babies survived.
Despite having three children, she never recovered from the trauma of losing the octuplets.
She experienced phantom pregnancies in which she said she could still feel her babies kicking.
Her life spiraled out of control after her devastating loss when she broke up with her partner Paul Hudson and turned to alcohol.
Arrested
Mandy was arrested in November 2007 for driving three times the limit when she had her three children in the car.
She subsequently lost custody of her children.
In a sad end to a painful life, this morning she was to be cremated at a service funded by her local council with no mourners present.
Her close family declined to comment, but confirmed to The Sun that they would not be attending.
Mandy’s friend Mark Beard, 58, said: ‘She had been battling cancer for a while and she had an operation before Christmas, but she recently told us that she had come back. I don’t know what kind of cancer she was.”
Mark, who owns the Yard of Ale pub in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks, revealed that her Mandy would come by twice a week.
He said: “She blended in really well and she was always up for a chat.
“She was a little eccentric and crazy, but we love her for that.
“She would sometimes talk about what happened to her, with all eight of her babies. People often asked him about it.
“When we met, she told us who she was and said that she had been in magazines in the past, but that was it.”
Mark said that a dozen of Mandy’s friends intended to raise a glass for the life of her tonight.
TRAGIC DEATHS
When she was asked about the tragic deaths, Mandy said: “Over three days and nights I had eight miscarriages.
“I rocked each of them for two and a half hours as they died in my arms. It was horrible. Truly awful.
“When I felt the last one coming, I said, ‘Please, God, let at least one of them live.'”
Mandy continued to lay flowers for her eight children at West Norwood Cemetery in south London.
She had said, “You will never forget your boy or girl, but you cannot change him.
“You will always have those memories and you will get over them.”
Speaking in 2018 about how she was approached by Princess Diana, Mandy said:
“She gave me a hug, she showed me a lot of support.
“When we met, she was like, ‘Thanks for keeping me off the covers for a change.
“We talked about her depression and my panic attacks and she told me that she had been there too.
“We talked about her family and she talked a lot about Charles and Camilla.”
Mandy had revealed that Diana made contact five weeks after the deaths.
They had two private meetings in late 1996. Diana died in August of the following year.
Mandy had revealed that Diana made contact five weeks after the deaths.
She explained: “We are sending some flowers for the small service. The undertaker is also sending some.
“It is very sad that she does not have anyone at her funeral.
“They just say a little prayer and I think it’s all over in five minutes.”
“She just didn’t have anyone really and I don’t think she was in contact with her family at all. It is a pity.
“They’re going to bring the flowers here and put them on the bar and about a dozen of us will raise a glass to her.
“We wanted to mark it in some way. It just seems right. Mandy named hers lost octuplets Kypros, Adam, Martyn, Cassius, Nelson, Donald, Kitali and Layne. They were all buried in small white coffins.
