Woman reunited with missing wedding ring via Facebook

By Cameron Poole

A British tourist who lost her wedding ring on a Spanish beach was remarkably reunited with it weeks later after a fellow Brit found it and tracked her down online.

Emily Camp and husband Matthew Camp, both 37, realized her platinum band was missing towards the end of their trip to Puerto Pollensa at the start of August.

Devastated, they spent hours searching - turning their hotel room upside down, contacting lifeguards, tourist information workers and ecven the police.

But, suspecting it had been lost on the beach, they eventually gave up - and returned home to Braintree, Essex.

In a last ditch attempt to find the ring, Camp joined a local Facebook group called Puerto Pollensa Now, describing it and informing residents they were staying at the Capri Hotel.

She then got a message last week - informing her the ring had been found by Maria Liddy, from north London.

The pair got in touch on WhatsApp and met up, and Camp is now happily reunited with the ring.

She said: “I got the message on Wednesday last week.

“The whole thing has been completely surreal, it wasn’t until I got the notifications on my phone, I realized how much it had affected us being lost.

“When I got the news, I had every emotion possible, I cried, laughed. When we found out it was the ring, Matt wanted to jump on a plane to pick it up.”

Liddy, deputy head at Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in north London, discovered the ring whilst on holiday in the Spanish town with her husband.

They were on a trip to the beach when she spotted the ring poking out of the sand.

Liddy had told a friend named Charlie who then posted on the same Facebook page, and the dots were connected.

After talking on WhatsApp, the couple arranged to meet Liddy in Islington, north London, last Monday to pick up the ring - over 800 miles from where they lost it in Majorca.

Camp said: “When it came to collecting it, I couldn’t believe it.

“I knew this lady was very kind, honest, due to her WhatsApp profile picture of her dog, I brought some dog toys, flowers and a card. I thought how could we ever repay this lady.

“I live this story in my head every day, it will be part of our life story as a couple for sure, Maria and Charlie will be part of our story.

“I feel it’s a tough lesson learnt, we realise how important that ring is to us, we are unbelievably lucky. Without Charlie and Maria, it wouldn’t have found its way back to us.

“It’s restored my faith in humanity and taught me social media can be used for good. There are still decent people out there. We feel whole again.”

Liddy added: “It was just meant to be.

“I came out of the sea and was packing our bits away and then saw something poking out of the sand. We thought oh gosh, we have to find who this belongs to.

"I think it perhaps was squashed underneath the sand, it could have been there for years."

Liddy said she felt a connection to the couple "straight away."

She said: "We wanted to get it back to them as soon as possible. Emily and Matt suggested they would come to us, we had an inset day, they drove up, and it was pouring with rain.

“We just hugged, we needed to talk, they came into school, made them coffees. We have already said we’re going to meet up in London.

“They are such a lovely couple, it meant a lot, we were so happy to reunite it with them.”

Camp also said that there were many "spooky" coincidences with the ring reunion which made her feel as if it was fate.

She says that Maria has the same name as her mother in law, and that the two couples flew out to Majorca on the same day.

The ring is also engraved with the Camp's anniversary, 14th October 2023, which happens to be Maria's sons birthday.

In addition, Camp says her and Matt started dating at age 26, their first home is number 26, and the ring was found under sunbed number 26.

The combination of these fun coincidences made the reunion feel even more "magical" to the couple.

Camp said: "When you start piecing it all together it is a bit like a book. It is all a very spooky coincidence."