Tragedy as bride-to-be , 24, dies in South Africa from diary allergy four days ... trends now
A young woman has died just four days after getting engaged on a romantic holiday in South Africa after using the wrong spoon to stir her tea.
Jess Prinsloo, 24, is thought to have died as a result of her acute dairy allergy just days after her partner Craig McKinnon, also 24, proposed at the God's Window viewpoint in Mpumalanga on December 27.
After saying yes, marketing executive Jess, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, celebrated with her fiancé for several days before travelling to her mother's house in Johannesburg on December 30.
But after coming into contact with dairy, she went into anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction in which the throat closes up, and died the following day in hospital, the Mirror reports.
Jess Prinsloo, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, died just four days after her boyfriend James McKinnon proposed to her on a dream holiday to South Africa
Ms Prinsloo, 24, was pictured crying with joy after the proposal on December 27, 2022
Her friends and family have paid tribute to a 'beautiful, fun-loving' young woman who 'lit up every room she walked into.'
In a heartbreaking post on social media, Mr McKinnon wrote: It’s difficult to find clarity in today, the worst day of my life.
'But a point I have never been clearer on, the 3+ years I got with my Jess are irreplaceable, and I wouldn’t trade them for 60 years with any other person on earth.
'I am devastated, and feeling pain like I’ve never felt before, but anyone that spent time in her company knows what I mean when I say I have been blessed to call her my fiancée [for] the greatest three days of my life.'
The couple met while at university in 2019, and they then moved into together in 2021.
Ms Prinsloo had many family members in South
