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When Petra Ecclestone pulled up in a white Rolls-Royce at Castello Odescalchi near Rome, toms shoes dripping with diamonds in an £80,000 Vera Wang dress to wed businessman James Stunt in August, you would be forgiven for thinking she was a spoilt princess cut off from reality.
But while the daughter of Formula 1 billionaire Bernie enjoys a privileged life, she insists her feet remain firmly on the ground.
Her nuptials cost a breathtaking £12 million – yet Petra insisted that no one buy her or James wedding gifts. Instead, she requested that her 270 guests donate as much money as possible to the Meningitis Trust, and they raised £150,000.
Her support for the trust stems from her brush with meningitis just over six years ago, an event she describes as ‘life-changing’.
Petra, 22, says: ‘Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don’t realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.’
Back in 2005, Petra was living with her father, her ex-model mother Slavica and her elder sister Tamara, 27, star of Channel 5 reality show Billion $$ Girl, in Chelsea, West London.
She remembers vividly the September morning she developed the disease. toms shoes for women ‘A schoolfriend had stayed the night and the next morning I woke with a terrible headache. I kept complaining that I felt ill but, given the fact I was always moaning about my health, neither of my parents seemed concerned.’
A little later Petra walked her friend to a nearby Tube station but was forced to return home by taxi – within the space of the 15-minute walk she had deteriorated drastically. ‘My legs felt like lead and my handbag felt as if it weighed a ton – I was so weak I thought I was going to collapse,’ she says.
When Petra walked through the door, Slavica took one look at her pale face and insisted she take her temperature. The reading came out at a startling 40C, so an urgent home visit from their GP was arranged.
When he arrived, he ran basic tests to check for meningitis. He asked Petra to bend her neck, and he shone a torch in her eyes and held a glass against her arm to check for a rash that did not disappear under pressure. ‘I could barely move my neck as it felt so stiff, and I winced in pain from the light in my eyes,’ she recalls. One telltale sign of meningitis is a rash that does not fade under pressure. toms shoes for men ‘But when he held a glass against my arm, there was nothing there,’ she adds.
Despite the absence of this, the GP suspected Petra was suffering from something serious and said she needed to be admitted to hospital immediately.
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