Serena Novelli and her husband Adriano were childhood sweethearts. After meeting when she was just 16 years old, the pair fell in love and grew up together. They stayed together through thick and thin, and he was her biggest support when her beloved mum Jeanette was diagnosed with cancer. Serena couldn’t imagine life without him.
‘We met outside my college as he was dropping his friend off,’ says Serena, 45, from Woking, Surrey. ‘I poked my head in through the car window to say hello. Later, he asked his friend for my number. It took me a while to believe he
