A nurse who helped victims of the Westminster attack has been praised by Prince Charles for her actions.

Former Darent Valley Hospital nurse Emily Booker met the royal when he visited victims and staff at King’s College Hospital, London, in the aftermath of the tragedy in which five people were killed and at least 50 injured last month.

The attacker Khalid Masood, 52, who was born Adrian Elms, in Dartford, was shot dead by police.

But Mrs Booker’s achievements don’t stop there – and the incident has failed to knock her off her stride as she prepares to run the London Marathon in aid of Save the Children.

Recalling the attack on March 22, Mrs Booker, a senior sister in the A&E department, said: “I was working that Wednesday. I didn’t deal with the critically injured patients.

"I dealt with some of the less serious ones, but it was quite frantic.

“The department was really busy anyway but with that thrown into the mix it changed things a lot.

“We didn’t know how many we were going to get or if there would be more incidents.”

Mrs Booker, 40, of Falcon Close, Dartford, said no one had time to really consider the implications as the events unfolded.

“It was chaotic because lots of people came to help, and it was noisy,” she said.

“It was only afterwards that you realised the enormity of what had happened.

“People weren’t talking much about it. The only one I spoke to was a police officer – he was trying to get in touch with his wife in Essex and asked after his colleague who was more seriously injured.

“He said they’d been walking along Westminster Bridge and had been hit by the car.

“Prince Charles seemed humbled by us all and in awe of the work we do. He was actually very funny as well.”

Now Mrs Booker is completing her last few training runs before the marathon on Sunday, April 23.

She chose to raise money for Save the Children having seen a TV programme that showed the plight of traumatised children in Syria, who were unable to cry amidst the horror of war.

She has just passed her £2,000 target.

And there was good news too when Mrs Booker learnt she had be upgraded to the Green marathon start zone – normally the preserve of VIPs and celebrities – having won a competition.

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