They were thousands of miles from home in a hospital in India. Here’s how they met and fell in love

It was possibly the last place on earth Charlotte Phillips expected to find love.

In a small hospital in Delhi, India, her mother, Janet, was undergoing a last-resort treatment for her debilitating neurodegenerative disease. She was confined to a hospital bed and the two were thousands of miles away from their home in the south of England.

“I’d been single for a long time, and my mom was really sick, so I wasn’t really in a headspace to meet anyone at all,” Charlotte tells CNN Travel today.

The year was 2009, and Charlotte was in her late 20s. She juggled caring for her mother with a job she loved — editing movie previews.

Charlotte’s trailer work spanned genres, but she particularly enjoyed editing together the ad for “The Holiday.” The 2006 Nancy Meyers movie stars Cameron Diaz a