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London – The oldest living person in the world, the British woman Ethel Caterham, turned 116 on Thursday, a few months after the title passed her after the death of the Brazilian nun INAH CANABARRO LUCAS.

Caterham was marking the occasion in silence with his family, taking the day “at his own pace”, the care home where he lives in Surrey, just south of London, he told News themezone in a statement.

“Ethel and his family are very grateful for all the kind messages and interests that are shown while celebrating his 116 birthday this year,” said Hallmark Care Homes in the statement, and added that although he was not giving any interview to mark the occasion, a conversation with King Carlos III “can be his only concession, understandably!”

The British monarch often extends personal greeting to the British when they mark the 100th birthday, usually in the form of a written letter. There was no immediate confirmation of Buckingham Palace that Charles had plans to talk to Caterham.

He celebrated his 115th birthday last year with a letter from Charles who congratulated her for a “really remarkable milestone.”

The great -grandmother is the last living subject of King Eduardo VII.

The title of the oldest person is never in the hands of the French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived up to 122 years and 164 days before his death in 1997, according to Guinness World Records.

Caterham was born on August 21, 1909 in the town of Shipton Bellinger in southwest England, five years before the beginning of World War I.

Now he is the oldest person in the world according to Guinness, the gerontological research group based in the United States and the Longeviquest database, after the death of Canabarro, 116, in April.

Your secret to longevity? “Never argue with anyone! I listen and do what I like,” he said before.

She has three grandchildren and five great -grandchildren, after surviving her two daughters and her husband Norman who died in 1976.

She just stopped driving when she was barely 100 years old, and played a bridge to her old age.

He even survived a Covid-19 fight at the age of 110 in 2020, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The same year, he told the BBC that in his life, “I had taken everything with my step, the ups and downs.”

• King Carlos III
• Great Britain
• Guinness World Records
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