The Queen's GP raves about acupuncture

On top of his work commitments he is a single father to Wilf, 11, and Poppy, who is about to turn 10. His wife, Annabel, died at the end of 2008, after a long illness. She had “a very aggressive breast cancer” and was dead within five years of her diagnosis, which took place when Poppy was just 11 months old and Annabel was pregnant with their third child. “It wasn’t on the radar,” he says. “We weren’t even thinking about breast cancer and terminal disease. Perhaps you do take the eye off the ball when you’re in baby mode. Although in the back of her head she probably knew that she was 38 and that was the age at which her mother got breast cancer. But we were going for our third child, and she was pregnant, and then she discovered the lump.” Annabel miscarried soon after, and Dr Evans seems almost grateful for that. “Otherwise she would never have terminated the pregnancy, and she would have died very quickly.”