Carrie Symonds: a media-savvy history-maker in No 10

The PM's partner has been on one emotional rollercoaster, and now faces another

When Carrie Symonds was last seen in public, at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, her arm linked through Boris Johnson's and beaming a wide smile, no one could have foreseen what drama the next seven weeks would hold.

From that day on 9 March to Wednesday's surprise announcement that she had safely given birth to a "healthy baby boy", the 32-year-old fiancee of the prime minister has endured an extraordinarily stressful time.