◼ "Even when I was as sick as that he would curl up in the bed with me," Mrs Romney said, pausing to wipe away a tear during a weekend of interviews for CNN at the Romney's large lakeside home in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. - By Peter Foster in Tampa for The Telegraph
Mrs Romney will take to the convention's stage late on Tuesday night in the hope that she can convey to a prime-time US television audience that her husband is not the awkward, out-of-touch Bostonian banker that he is sometimes characterised as being.