Above, Mrs Ethel Caterham, widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Norman Caterham at her care home, the Hallmark Care Home in Lightwater, Surrey.
This because 8 months and 11 (total 254) days ago on 21 August 2024, Mrs Caterham celebrated her 115th birthday – a remarkable achievement! The reason for the BBC reporting on this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0zxzpdd4o) is due to the death of the world’s oldest person, Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil at the age of 116.
The reason for the BG reporting on this – rather than to UK’s elections – is because as a payer of the TV Tax aka TV Licence, I object strongly to this organ of the wokeocracy ignoring Mrs Caterham’s feelings by referring to her as Ms Caterham!
HAD Ethel been born on the 21 August 1999 and not 21 August 1909 and had thus reached the age of 26, it is highly likely that as a “modern woman” she would wish to be referred to as Ms Ethel Collins – whether or not she was married – as so many modern women now do. However, Mrs Caterham is NOT a modern woman! Ladies born in her era almost always adopted their husband’s surname upon marriage and living as a “common law” wife of a man was unheard of!
I speak from personal experience as my late aunt Miss Geraldine Rogers was born two years before Mrs Caterham so I happen to know how the vast majority of this generation viewed the world!
The BBC is so consumed with wokery that it ignores and disrespects those persons not on the list of victimhood persisting in it’s political correctness regardless.
We can also be sure that when Ethel was 26 (in 1935) she could never imagined that one day there would be a potted biography of her life that would be described as a “Wikipedia entry”!