The Girl Who the Changed My Life ; From Stillbirth to the Death of Her Friend Princess Diana, Rosa Monckton's Life has Been Beset by Tragedy. But She's Found Salvation in the Joyous Love She Is Given by Her

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THE OTHER morning Rosa Monckton came downstairs to a scene of devastation in the kitchen. Her 12-year-old daughter Domenica was covered in egg, cheese, milk, marmite and peanut butter which she'd tried to mix in a bowl to make a midnight snack.

'I have been like Auntie Nigella,' Domenica triumphantly told her mother, 'I couldn't sleep so I thought I should come downstairs and make myself something.' They'd watched Auntie Nigella celebrity chef Nigella Lawson to you and me on television the night before.

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The Girl Who the Changed My Life ; From Stillbirth to the Death of Her Friend Princess Diana, Rosa Monckton's Life has Been Beset by Tragedy. But She's Found Salvation in the Joyous Love She Is Given by Her

'She was having the time of her life,' laughs Rosa, 54. 'Down's syndrome children learn by imitating other people and she'd seen Auntie Nigella in a scene from her programme getting up in the night to make something to eat.

'When something like that happens you can't get angry, you have to think "this is great". Once I caught her drinking out of the dog's bowl, because she'd seen him do it. To her it was the logical thing to do.' Domenica is the child Rosa credits with opening her eyes to what really matters in life.

Before her arrival on June 1, 1995 an event which Rosa admits initially left her poleaxed Rosa's life had been enviably privileged.

The daugh...

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