Call The Midwife star Miss Higgins ‘can’t carry on as normal’ after revelation

star Georgie Glen has admitted life “can’t carry on as normal” for her beloved character Miss Higgins in light of the revelation she had a son whom she gave up for adoption decades ago.

Viewers were in tears during the season finale of the long running period drama as , only for him to die from kidney disease.

However the spinster medical receptionist gained comfort from meeting her grandson Harry and learning that her son had a good life.

Speaking exclusively to and other media at a press event in advance of the two festive episodes, which sees the return of Eisa Latif as Harry, actress Georgie reflected on the changes in Miss Higgins life since we last saw her.

“Last year, I said it was like a little spotlight had shone on her past, and it would then go out again, and life would carry on as normal. And it honestly I realised as soon as I came back [filming] of course, it can’t carry on as normal,” she pondered.

“I’m actually the same person, but in a very different position now – because a few people are privy to it, Dr Turner (played by Stephen McGann) and Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett) obviously.

“She’s never going to be the same again, because a fundamental change has happened in her life,” she reflected.

“But it’s a question of finding a new reality within that new discovery, because it was all so long ago, and she’s lived just with the grief and the memory of what happened [for so long].

“And although her son has now died, she has at least been reunited with him, and she has gained his son. So she has gained a grandson, and her life is enriched by that,” Georgie acknowledged.

Georgie revelaed that she reflected on Miss Higgins situation further while working on a short film called The Removed. The movie by award winning writer and director Rebecca Rose explores the suffering of young and mostly unmarried mothers in England and Wales who had their babies taken from them and forcibly adopted in the period between 1949 and 1976.

“I met at the screening quite a few of the mothers who are fighting for an apology from the government at the moment, and they – each and every one of them, had a different story about how it had affected their lives and whether they had managed to reunite with their children or not.

“And in some cases it hadn’t gone well. And in other cases, they had found new families. But it’s a question of finding a new reality within that new discovery,” she reflected.

“Because of doing that film – to actually meet real mothers who had their babies taken away from them, some never to know what happened. I mean…

“I realised, meeting them, that [Miss Higgins situation] was not as as bad. At least she gave him to a family she trusted.”