London — The world’s oldest residing individual, British girl Ethel Caterham, turned 116 on Thursday, simply months after the title handed to her following the dying of Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas.
Caterham was marking the event quietly along with her household, taking the day “at her personal tempo,” the care house the place she lives in Surrey, simply south of London, advised CBS Information in a press release.
“Ethel and her household are so grateful for the entire type messages and curiosity proven to her as she celebrates her 116th birthday this yr,” Hallmark Care Properties stated within the assertion, including that whereas she was not giving any interviews to mark the event, a dialog with King Charles III “could also be her one concession, understandably!”
The British monarch usually extends a private greeting to Britons once they mark a centesimal birthdays, normally within the type of a written letter. There was no rapid affirmation by Buckingham Palace that Charles had plans to talk with Caterham.
Courtesy of Hallmark Care Properties and the Caterham household
She celebrated her one hundred and fifteenth birthday final yr with a letter from Charles who congratulated her on a “actually outstanding milestone.”
The good-grandmother is the final residing topic of King Edward VII.
The title of the oldest individual ever is held by French girl Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122 years and 164 days earlier than her dying in 1997, in response to Guinness World Information.
Caterham was born on Aug. 21, 1909, within the village of Shipton Bellinger in southwest England, 5 years earlier than the beginning of World Struggle I.
She is now the oldest individual on this planet in response to Guinness, the U.S.-based Gerontological Analysis Group and the LongeviQuest database, after the dying of 116-year-old Canabarro in April.
Her secret to longevity? “By no means arguing with anybody! I hear and I do what I like,” she has stated beforehand.
She has three grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren, having outlived each her two daughters and her husband Norman who died in 1976.
She solely stopped driving when she was simply shy of 100, and performed bridge properly into her outdated age.
She even survived a bout of COVID-19 on the age of 110 in 2020, in response to the Every day Telegraph newspaper. The identical yr, she advised the BBC that in her life, she had “taken every little thing in my stride, the highs and lows.”
