The pardon relieves some of the burden felt by Ruth Ellis’s family, writes Lizzie Seal

Ellis, a nightclub hostess, was executed in 1955 for murdering her lover, David Blakely. Her grandchildren campaigned for a pardon on the basis that she was the victim of abuse.

Elli's grandchildren had called for a posthumous pardon for their grandmother, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955 after being found guilty of murdering her lover David…

The King has accepted the government’s advice to grant Ms Ellis a conditional pardon