Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years

Roslynne finally reunited her daughter 60 years later on Long Lost Family. (Image: ITV)

Ros has shared the agonising moment she was forced to give up her baby for adoption, culminating in an emotional reunion 60 years later on ITV's Long Lost Family.

At just 16, Ros, now 76 and residing in Cornwall, fell pregnant leading her strict parents to decide on adoption.

To conceal her condition, she was dispatched over 100 miles away to a Mother and Baby home in London, run by the Church of England, until her daughter Christine was born in March 1965.

Recalling the harrowing day she parted with Christine, Ros recounted: "She was just gorgeous. She was fair, sweet faced. It was just the best thing. The best thing ever.

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"The Sister came to me and she said you can go and fetch the baby now and bring her down. I went up to the nursery and I picked her up and I told her I loved her and that she'd be taken care of," reports the Mirror.

Long Lost Family: Mum recalls moment she was forced to give up baby (Image: ITV)

Despite marrying Tony later in life, Ros could not have more children. Now, after sixty years, she has been given the opportunity to meet her only child, thanks to the investigative work of Long Lost Family.

In a poignant episode due to broadcast on Monday, the team found that Christine, now known as Lyndsey, was adopted by a vicar and his wife in Kent.

Lyndsey's nomadic family history presented a challenge for the team, but it was her marriage that provided the crucial clue to her whereabouts.

During an emotional encounter with Nicky Campbell, Lyndsey confides that her attempts to find her birth mother were fruitless. She is later astonished to learn she is Ros' only child.

With great anticipation, Lyndsey expresses her feelings about the impending reunion: "It's going to be one of the biggest things in my life."

Upon learning from Davina McCall that Long Lost Family has located her daughter, Ros is overwhelmed with emotion. Her husband Tony is equally stunned by the news.

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The meeting between mother and daughter is filled with disbelief at their resemblance. An elated Ros exclaims: "I'm full of joy and happiness! I want to stand on that step and shout to everybody. You know, I have met her, I've met my daughter".

In a touching moment, Ros gifts Lyndsey a bracelet, which prompts her to say: "It's like my christening bracelet that I lost!"

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Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years

Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years

Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years

Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years

Heartbreaking reunion on Long Lost Family as mum meets daughter after 60 years