What are Madeleine’s parents up to now?
It’s been nearly 18 years since Kate and Gerry McCann last saw their daughter Madeleine McCann, and they still haven’t given up hope of finding her.
Not knowing what happened to her daughter placed a huge burden on her mental health, so Kate, who received her degree in medicine at the University of Dundee, quit her job as a GP. However, in 2021, it was reported that she had returned to the NHS frontline in a time of crisis against COVID-19. She reportedly worked as a doctor in hospitals in Leicester and was said to be pleased to be “doing her little bit to help” as the city battled with soaring hospital admissions.
Gerry, a cardiologist who is also a research professor at the University of Leicester, was said to be working in the same hospital at times, although they were “hardly ever” expected to come across each other due to the busy nature of their prestigious jobs.
In 2017, while marking the tenth anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance, Kate opened up about how she still buys presents for Madeleine ahead of Christmas and birthdays. Kate explained: “I do all the present buying. I think about what age she is and buy something that, whenever we find her, will still be appropriate so there’s a lot of thought goes into it.”
