Mary Berry has opened up about the tragic death of her son, Will.
The BBC’s star’s son was 19 years old when he was involved in a car crash in 1989.
“It was a glorious January day. It was sort of one o’clock and he wasn’t home,” she recalled.
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Mary described that on the Friday, the day before the accident, she had welcomed her son home with a roast lamb – his favourite meal.
“I can remember Will walking through the door on that Friday and asking ‘Mum, who’s coming?’ And I said, ‘It’s you, it’s so lovely to have you home and Annabel and Tom too’, so we had a lovely family meal,” she said on an episode of The Mary Berry Story on BBC 2.
It was the following day that Will took the family car out for a drive – but when he wasn’t home by one o’clock, Mary’s concerns grew.
“The doorbell rang and there was a policeman there and immediately then I knew why. And he said, ‘There’s been an accident and I’m sorry to say your son is dead.'”
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The 81-year-old complimented the staff who looked after her son at Wickham Hospital until she and her husband Paul Hunnings arrived.
“[The staff] were so understanding, and then they said: ‘Would you like to see William?’ And he just looked so beautiful and so lovely, his little cold face. It was nice to say farewell.”
