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On the outskirts of Valencia in the town of Paiporta, which was hit hardest by the flood, a sludge of mud is everywhere, blocking drains so that many residents cannot use their toilets and the air carries the smell of sewage.

"That's the hardest thing I've ever had to say," says Helen.

More than 220 people died in this eastern coastal area at the end of October, and the town of Paiporta was hit hardest with the loss of 60 lives.

Hands down, Golden emphasizes, divorce has proved to be the hardest thing she’s yet to go through in life.

The event will come at the end of a year during which the princess has had to largely withdraw from public duties following a cancer diagnosis, a period that the Prince of Wales recently described as the hardest of his life.