She is considered to be the last surviving subject of Edward VII, the King died at the Buckingham Palace in 1910. She now lives in a retirement home.
After the death of the Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, Wednesday April 30 at 116, the new dean of humanity is the English Ethel Caterham. It lies in the county of Surrey (southeast of England), and is now 115 years and 252 days, according to the research group in gerontology of the United States and Longeviquet.
Ethel May Caterham, born Collins, was born on August 21, 1909. She was considered the last surviving subject of Edouard VII, who died at Buckingham Palace in 1910. According to the BBC, she celebrated her last birthday in her Surrey retirement home with her family and friends. “I don’t know why there is all this noise”she would then have declared, nevertheless admitting having “After a great day”. The secret of its longevity: “I never argue with anyone, I listen to and I do what I like”.
-From Gibraltar to Hong Kong
The Englishwoman was born in the county of Hampshire, in the south-east of England, and grew up in the Wiltshire. At the age of 18, she was employed as an au pair in a family of soldiers in India, says the BBC. It was when she returned to the United Kingdom in the early 1930s that she married Norman Caterham. The latter having been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, the couple settled for several years in Gibraltar and Hong Kong, a city in which Ethel created a crèche.
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Today, the dean of the world has three granddaughters and five great-grandchildren. One of his sisters, Gladys, lived up to 104 years.
