The mother of a woman, who was brought up in the island and killed by her husband, featured on BBC Radio 5 Live after a royal stated that she was inspired by her.

Diana Parkes spoke on the Emma Barnett Show just days after the Duchess of Cornwall revealed on the show that it was Mrs Parkes’s story of her daughter that inspired her to become a strong campaigner against domestic abuse.

Mrs Parkes sent in a text to the show while Camilla spoke on air about meeting her at a conference by domestic abuse charity SafeLives in 2016.

The Isle of Man resident talked about her daughter Joanna Brown, who was bludgeoned to death by her husband in 2010 while her two children were within earshot.

At the age of 71, Mrs Parkes found herself raising her grandchildren along with her husband who was 76. The children were aged nine and 10 at the time.

In a response to Mrs Parkes’s text, the Duchess said: ’It was you who inspired me. I took one look at your face and knew I had to do something.’

Mrs Parkes told listeners about the horrific killing of her daughter and how her estranged husband, former British Airways captain Robert Brown, was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in May 2011 and was given a 26-year sentence.

She added that the family is ’frightened’ about his release.

Mrs Parkes highlighted that it has been her grandchildren who have given her purpose in life.

’I don’t know how I would have been able to cope without them,’ she said.

She recited a touching letter from her grandchildren, who relocated to the island to live with their grandmother and step-grandfather.

’Despite massive changes in our lives, we have managed to cope with what happened and succeed thanks to our grandmother and family in the island,’ they wrote.

Mrs Parkes set up The Joanna Simpson Foundation in memory of her daughter with Joanna’s friend, Hetti Barkworth-Nanton.

It aims to transform care, support and protection for children affected by domestic abuse and homicide through influencing social policy and creating public awareness of the needs of these children.

View the website by searching: www.jsfoundation.org.uk/