He laughed as one of Caterham\u2019s granddaughters suggested it was a comment she had heard her grandmother make before.<\/p>\n
The pair also reportedly spoke fondly of a Buckingham Palace garden party Caterham attended in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
Caterham said the secret to her long life is \u201cnever arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like\u201d.<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s previous oldest person, Sister Inah Canabarro of Brazil, died on April 30, passing the auspicious mantle to Caterham.<\/p>\n
The supercentenarian has survived her husband Norman and both of her daughters, Gem and Anne.<\/p>\n
Born on August 21, 1909, Caterham has lived through a host of major global events, from the sinking of the Titanic to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
She spent time in India, Hong Kong and Gibraltar before she and her family relocated to Surrey, Britain, where she has spent the past 50 years.<\/p>\n
Now based in a local care home there, Caterham told BBC Radio Surrey last year she has taken life\u2019s \u201chighs and lows\u201d in her stride.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been all over the world and I\u2019ve ended up in this lovely home, where everyone is falling over themselves for me, giving me everything I want.\u201d<\/p>\n
She celebrated her most recent birthday alongside her three granddaughters and five great-granddaughters.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the year, she received a birthday message from the world\u2019s oldest man, Brazil\u2019s Jo\u00e3o Marinho Neto.<\/p>\n
Marinho Neto, 112, posed for a photo with a picture of Caterham and a sign that read Ethel Feliz Anivers\u00e1rio \u2013 \u201cHappy Birthday Ethel\u201d in his native Portuguese.<\/p>\n
It is believed to be the only interaction between the oldest man and oldest woman in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He laughed as one of Caterham\u2019s granddaughters suggested it was a comment she had heard her grandmother make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19273,74,9526,642,6325,34964,9632,9861,34965,156,34963,9860,3259,111,139,69,34962,1523,4056,9855,9863,3590,4767,102,17450],"class_list":["post-38145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-116th","tag-after","tag-another","tag-august","tag-birthday","tag-caterham","tag-celebrates","tag-charles","tag-commemorated","tag-entertainment","tag-ethel","tag-king","tag-milestone","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oldest","tag-over","tag-person","tag-royal","tag-visit","tag-visitor","tag-weekend","tag-with","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}