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School meals also add to the pressure, she said, and her eldest child's lunches cost £44 a month.

Both sisters survived but the eldest was severely wounded in killer Axel Rudakubana's attack on a Taylor Swift themed dance workshop on 29 July 2024.

"I found my transition quite difficult because I left when I had my eldest daughter," she says.

Each are in their separate homes, but there’s a sense of convivial affection between them after playing Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, and his eldest daughter, Lady Mary, for so long.

I have a younger brother and sister, so I was the eldest child.