Irish Sunday Mirror

SURGERY BLOW FOR PHILIP CRASH VICTIM

Mum needs op on cracked wrist

- BY AMY SHARPE

Morgan-jones

wheel in Windsor. The Range Rover is on sale for €130,000 because of its royal status. A new version costs €120,000. Some signs of its regal heritage remain – a fold-down step used by Her Majesty to from the Duke of Edinburgh last week over the accident outside the Sandringha­m estate in Norfolk, where his Land Rover hit her pal’s car.

But now she wants him to know just how much misery it is causing her.

“This has completely knocked me,” said the single mum-of-two. “It feels the last three weeks of pain and recovery have been pointless as I now have to start all over again. It’s like groundhog day. I want him to know the full effect this is having on my life. I’ve never had surgery before and I’ll have this titanium plate for life.”

Emma will be given

Crash mum Emma a general anaestheti­c for the op at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn and be signed off her job as a support worker until April. She said: “I’m nervous, although hopefully it will be straightfo­rward.” Emma is pursuing a personal injury claim against the Duke. amy.sharpe@ sundaymirr­or.co.uk

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