– or stools – that belonged to the daughter of King Louis XV, Princess Louise Élisabeth.
A decade later, by the mid-1960s, it was rare for babies to be removed from the delivery room without being individually labelled.Stories of babies being accidentally switched in hospital were very rare at the time, though
The day after Jan Daly was born at a hospital in north London in 1951, her mother immediately complained that the baby she had been given was not hers."She was really stressed and crying, but the nurses assured her she was wrong and the doctor was called in to try to calm her," Jan says.The staff only backed down when her mum told them she'd had a fast, unassisted delivery, and pointed out the clear forceps marks on the baby's head
"I feel for the other mother who had been happily feeding me for two days and then had to give up one baby for another," she says."There was never any apology, it was just 'one of those silly errors', but the trauma affected my mother for a long time."
Matthew's father, an insurance agent from the Home Counties, was a keen amateur cyclist who spent his life following the local racing scene.
He lived alone in retirement and over the last decade his health had been deteriorating.The Assisted Dying Bill was
, passing its first major vote in the House of Commons with a majority of 55 MPs from a wide range of political parties.But at least a dozen MPs who backed it or abstained in November have now said they are likely to vote against it.
The bill would allow terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to receive medical assistance to dieSupporters remain confident it will eventually become law but it faces further parliamentary tests.