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record, according to research groups.Caterham was born in a village in Hampshire on August 21, 1909, the second youngest of eight
children.She lives in a care home in Surrey, also in southern England, having outlived her husband and both her daughters.She is now the
oldest person in the world according to the US-based Gerontological Research Group (GRG) and the LongeviQuest database, after the death of
116-year-old Inah Canabarro Lucas from Brazil.The great-grandmother is the last living subject of King Edward VII, according to the GRG, and
great-grandchildren.Caterham travelled to India when she was 18 to work as an au pair for a military family, making the three-week journey
alone by ship.Soon after she returned to the UK, she met her future husband, Norman Caterham, at a dinner party and they married in 1933.The
couple were stationed in Hong Kong and Gibraltar before returning to southern England
She only stopped driving when she was just shy of 100, and played bridge well into her old age.She even survived a bout of Covid aged 110 in
