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Charlotte Church yesterday showed signs of her strain at being a single mother bringing up two little ones.

Charlotte, 24, struggled with a host of bags, toys and bottles as she took her two children out for the day.

Meanwhile her estranged fiancé, peramatanned Gavin Henson, has been out living it up, looking relaxed and care-free.

The former Voice of an Angel has sung for Popes and Presidents but today she looked as weary as any other lone parent.  

Three weeks after the split, Charlotte looked tired with scraped back hair and a check cut-off shirt as she left her secret Cardiff bolt-hole.

Henson, 28, and Charlotte are on good terms for the sake of their two children Ruby, two, and Dexter, one.

But while Gavin has been on holiday and spotted in bars and clubs, Charlotte is struggling to find her feet as a single parent.

One witness said: 'Charlotte was not her usual self - all the fun seems to have been sucked out of her.

'She is looking quite tired and drawn. She had bags for the kids and the car took a lot of loading up.

'It is very hard work being a single parent and it is beginning to show. But the kids both looked very happy and healthy with her.'  

Gavin has had a sunshine break in Alicante and also been out clubbing in London - and in village pubs near their former home in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Last Thursday night he attended a pre-Wimbledon party at the Kensington Roof Gardens with Ultimo boss Michelle Mone.

And at the weekend he accompanied her to Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow with her husband Michael, in an apparent bid to ward off romance rumours following their appearance together at the glitzy London party.