{"id":2039191,"date":"2025-09-21T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039191"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:56:32","slug":"king-charles-meets-with-the-worlds-oldest-person-and-listens-as-she-gushes-about-his-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-meets-with-the-worlds-oldest-person-and-listens-as-she-gushes-about-his-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles meets with the world’s oldest person and listens as she gushes about his youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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King Charles met with the world\u2019s oldest person last week and listened as she gushed over how \u201call the girls were in love with you and wanted to marry you\u201d<\/em> in his youth.<\/p>\n

At age 116, Ethel Caterham is the world\u2019s oldest person. She assumed the title in April after the death of Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian nun who died at the age of 116.<\/p>\n

After bidding farewell to the US President<\/a> on Thursday from the steps of Windsor Castle, King Charles motored over to Caterham\u2019s care home in Surrey to pay her a visit.<\/h5>\n

Caterham would have received a birthday card from the late Queen Elizabeth II on her 100th<\/sup> birthday and again on her 105th<\/sup>, and every birthday after also receives a card.<\/p>\n

Ethel Caterham was born on 21 August 1909, in the reign of Edward VII, and lived through the final year of his reign, and those of George V, George VI, Elizabeth II and now King Charles III.<\/p>\n

She is the last British subject who was alive during the reign of Edward VII.<\/p>\n

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King Charles with Ethel Caterham Royal Family \/ X \/ Fair Use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are three other Britons, born in 1912, 1913, and 1914, respectively, that comprise the list of oldest living Britons. Together with Caterham, they consist of the four last subjects of King George V.<\/p>\n

During the King\u2019s visit she joked with him about how \u201call the girls were in love with you and wanted to marry you\u201d<\/em> as they watched his Investiture Ceremony as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle. She shared how she remembered the moment the late Queen Elizabeth II placed the coronet on his head.<\/p>\n

Her granddaughter, Kate Henderson, confirmed this to the King. \u201cYou were saying that the other day, weren\u2019t you? You said \u2018Prince Charles was so handsome. All the girls were in love with him.\u2019 A true prince \u2013 and now the King.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

King Charles joked, \u201cYes, well, all that\u2019s left of him anyway.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The King paid a visit at the request of Caterham, who had said that she\u2019d rather meet him than have a birthday party.<\/p>\n

The Royal Family shared a video<\/a> of the King\u2019s meeting with Ethel Caterham on their social media accounts.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Charles met with the world\u2019s oldest person last week and listened as she gushed over how \u201call the girls were in love with you and wanted to marry you\u201d in his youth. At age 116, Ethel Caterham is the world\u2019s oldest person. She assumed the title in April after the death of Sister Inah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/King-Charles-meets-with-the-worlds-oldest-person-and-listens.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}