Prince William was seen having a heart-warming chat with a little girl, 5, who was saved by emergency service heroes after she collapsed.
In the touching snap the Duke of Cambridge is seen beaming with the child during his first royal engagement since his summer break.
William, who served as a pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance for two years until 2017, met frontline workers from the South East Coast Ambulance Service, the RNLI, the Metropolitan Police and the London Fire Brigade (LFB) along with people who received their life-saving help.
He heard their first-hand stories of rescue and bravery during a visit to the Dockhead Fire Station in south-east London on Thursday.
In one of the sit-down chats he spoke with little Lila Page who collapsed in March 2020.
South East Coast ambulance technician Charlotte Speers, along with off-duty firefighters Marc Rustage and James Knight, resuscitated the five year-old girl.
Ms Speers, who was on maternity leave, was at The Railway pub in Rainham, Kent, when she heard a commotion and the pub manager shouting for someone to call an ambulance.
She and her off-duty emergency colleagues went to help. It was later discovered that Lila, of Rainham, had a heart condition.
She has since had surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is doing very well.
She was dressed like a princess with a toy tiara for her meeting with William on Thursday and he said he liked her sparkly silver shoes and unicorn watch.
Asked about her meeting with William and the people who saved her, she said "it was nice meeting new people and they are cool, really cool".
William also heard about a fire at a 19-storey block of flats in Tower Hamlets, east London, in May, in which two men were taken to hospital with injuries and smoke inhalation while 42 other people, including children, were treated at the scene.
The block was evacuated and 35 people were rescued. Amid the heavy smoke, firefighter Nikolay Penchev carried a woman down 18 floors and led her husband safely out of the building.
Mr Penchev, 26, who has two years' service as a firefighter in London along with four years in the Bulgarian Fire Brigade, said: "It had been a necessity. There was no other option and I had to reassure her that I was capable and confident of doing it."
The event was held on Emergency Services Day which takes place on September 9 each year.
