Madeline McCann
Madeleine was born in Leicester and lived with her family in Rothley, also in Leicestershire.She was blonde with blue-green eyes, a distinctive dark strip on the iris of her right eye, and a small brown spot on her left calf.
Kate and Gerry McCann
Madeleine's parents are both physicians and practising Roman Catholics. Kate Marie McCann, née Healy (born 1968, Huyton, near Liverpool) attended All Saints School in Anfield, then Notre Dame High School in Everton Valley, graduating in 1992 with a degree in medicine from the University of Dundee. She moved briefly into obstetrics and gynaecology, then anaesthetics, and finally general practice
Tapas Seven
The McCanns were on holiday with seven friends; the families had eight children in all, including the McCanns' three. The nine adults dined together most evenings at 20:30 in the resort's tapas restaurant, thus the media dubbed the friends the "Tapas Seven".