Ms Caterham, who lives at Hallmark Lakeview Care Home in Lightwater, became the world’s oldest living person in April 2025 after the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was 116.Born three years before the Titanic disaster and eight years before the Russian Revolution, Ethel has also lived through two world wars.
Ethel Caterham, the world’s oldest living person, has celebrated her 117th birthday with family and friends in Surrey, according to BBC.
Originally from Shipton Bellinger in Hampshire, the second youngest of eight children, Ethel was raised in Tidworth, Wiltshire. She is one of the oldest people to survive Covid-19, after contracting it in 2020 at the age of 110, according to Guinness World Records, according to BBC report.
The last surviving subject of King Edward VII, as a teenager she travelled to India in 1927 and began working as an au pair to a military family there.
