The journal she kept after three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 was so confidential that even her husband had not read it. The diary was seized by the Portuguese police as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine, but the Leveson inquiry was told that in September 2008 the News of the World published the journal under the headline: “Kate’s Diary: In Her Own Words.”