The Telegraph reports:

A 115-year-old British woman born in the Edwardian era has become the world’s oldest living person.

Ethel Caterham, who was born in 1909, is the oldest known Briton to ever live and the last surviving subject of Edward VII.

She is now the world’s oldest person after the previous record-holder, Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, died at the age of 116 on April 30.

Mrs Caterham, who lives at a care home in Lightwater, Surrey, previously said “I do what I like” when asked what she credits for her longevity.

“Never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like,” she said last year after turning 115.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/01/british-woman-115-named-worlds-oldest-person/

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13 comments

  1. She looks very happy for someone who owes their position solely to the fact that loads of other people have died.

  3. What’s great about this is that Britain will now be the face of longevity. Japanese and Italian people will throw away their fish and vegetable-based diets and start eating Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney pies in the hope of emulating our success.

  6. She probably remembers back in ’66 when England beat half of Germany in the final

  7. If I ever live long enough for people to start asking for my secret, I’m gunna make up some bullshit remedy and tell everyone they need to stop wiping their bum after pooing or something.

  8. on what diet?? bacons and curry with chips?? dayum i nd to change my diet, screw the brocoli, avocados and kale diet.

  9. She needs to move to the USA 🇺🇸 and run for public office. She would fit right in.

  10. What are the chances that she was named “world’s oldest person” and then actually took that title. Did her parents know???

  11. I believe the UK is also home to the oldest person to have ever scored a soccer goal on live television.

  12. So they seen Ramsay Macdonald as Prime Minister in 1924

  13. She caught Covid at 110 years old and survived. This was pre-vaccine too.

    I think she’s immortal guys

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