01-05-2025
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Brit woman, 115, is world's oldest and reveals secret to long life after outliving both her children
Ethel celebrated her 115th birthday last August with a Frank Sinatra tribute act at her care home
GOLDEN LIFE Brit woman, 115, is world's oldest and reveals secret to long life after outliving both her children
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A BRITISH great-granny aged 115 years and 254 days has become the world's oldest woman.
Ethel Caterham claimed the title after Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas died at 116.
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British great-granny, Ethel Caterham, aged 115 years and 254 days, has become the world's oldest woman
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Ethel has also revealed the secret to her long life
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Ethel claimed the title after Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, above, died at 116
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She has been widowed since husband Norman died in 1976 and their two daughters, Gem and Anne, have also passed away.
Ethel celebrated her 115th birthday last August with a Frank Sinatra tribute act at her care home in Lightwater, Surrey.
Grand-daughter Alex Peeters, 54, told The Sun: 'Having outlived my mum and my auntie, it's incredible, really.'
She revealed Ethel told her the secret to a long life is 'never argue'.
Alex, one of five grandchildren, added: 'She did yoga as a young woman, loved a sherry and played bridge until her 90s.'
Ethel, born in Hampshire in 1909 and raised in Wiltshire, wed in 1933 then moved with Norman to Gibraltar before raising their kids back in the UK.
She said in 2022: 'Family's the most important thing in life.'
Anna Eliza Williams was the last British woman to be the world's oldest, dying in 1987 aged 114.
