Samantha Cameron, wife of former primer minister David Cameron, has opened up about the loss of their six-year-old son Ivan. 

 

Ivan who suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died in hospital in 2009.

 

Samantha told The Times that “Ive dying is such a massive thing that everything else is irrelevant."

 

"It just overshadows everything. What goes on in the outside world becomes meaningless.”

 

“For the whole time Ive was alive, you were always dealing with life or death situations, but it doesn’t prepare you for when you are actually faced with it."

 

"When it happens, it is still a huge shock. From the moment he is born you are living in a situation that is quite surreal and difficult to deal with."

 

 

The Camerons have three other children, Nancy, 13, Arthur, 11, and Florence, 6. 

 

Samantha says she still includes Ivan in the family: "I still have four children and I think about him the whole time. It’s all so complex – nothing is ever black and white."

 

"There were so many emotions and that’s why grief is so hard.”

 

 

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