The title of the oldest person in the world has a new holder. Who is and what says about the secret of longevity
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An 115 -year -old British was declared the oldest person in the world, after the death of the Brazilian nuns held the title, Inah Canabarro Lucas, who died on Wednesday, at 116, according to The Guardian.
Ethel Caterham, born in 1909, is the first British holder of such a title after 1987, when he belonged to Anna Williams, at that time aged 114.
Caterham, the last survivor of the reign of Eduard VII, received the title after the death of the Brazilian monk Inah Canabarro Lucas.
“I listen and do what I like”
Caterham, who lives in Lightwater, Surrey, in the southern-east of England, puts his longevity on account of his attitude.
“I took everything easily, the ups and downs,” said the woman for BBC Radio Surrey in 2020, mentioning that the maximum of her life is “to never quarrel with anyone.”
“I listen and do what I like,” said Ethel Caterham.
The title was granted by Longeviquest and Gerontology Research Group, research organizations that check the ages for Guinness World Records.
Ethel Caterham was born on August 21, 1909, in Shipton Bellingher, Hampshire, and grew up in Tidworth, Wiltshire, being the second youngest of the eight children.
At the age of 18 he became Pair in a military family in British India, and three years later he returned to England, where he met her future husband, in 1931, Lieutenant Norman Caterham.
The couple married in 1933, at Salisbury Castle, where Norman had played in the choir. He served as a senior officer in the Royal Army Pay Corps, the unit of the British army on the administration of financial issues, and were in Gibraltar and Hong Kong, where Ethel Caterham set up a nursery.
The couple, who brought two girls to the world, returned to the UK. Norham Caterham died in 1976.
Ethel Catherham has been living in Surrey for 50 years and has three granddaughters and five great -granddaughters.
“I was everywhere in the world and I arrived in this wonderful house, where everyone falls in love with me, giving me everything I want,” she said.
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