Terminally ill mother watches daughter marry before dying 10 minutes later

Published: 7:30AM GMT 01 March 2010

Susan Hope, 49, who was battling breast cancer and 3 brain tumours, was means to watch her daughter, Gemma, wed in her front room interjection to a special marriage looseness postulated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, prior to flitting away.

Mrs Hope saw her 28-year-old daughter wed Darren Russell, 32, at home in Ruardean, Glos, notwithstanding her condition fast deteriorating forward of a programmed Aug wedding.

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""She was my most appropriate crony and she was ostensible to be my dame of honour, I regularly pronounced that if she couldn"t be there I wouldn"t get married," her daughter said.

""But when we knew she didn"t have prolonged left we asked the internal vicar if we could get tied together at the residence so that silent could be there.""

Gemma, who has 3 young kids - Tia, 14, Leo, three, and Jai, twelve months - pronounced after it became strong her mother"s condition had deteriorated, their vicar spoke to officials at the Archbishop of Canterbury"s bureau who sent by a looseness to wed in the vital room on Feb 16.

""We had the rite in the residence that day and as shortly as the use accomplished I walked around to her bed and gave her a cuddle and pronounced "thank you" to her.

""A rip rolled down her face and she took her last breath and I knew that she had hung on to see me married, that she had regularly wanted.""