Original Blog Entry: Couple Celebrates 81st Wedding Anniversary

truesee — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:30:37 GMT

UK s Longest Married Couple Celebrate 81st Anniversary

by Laura on May 26th, 2009

Frank Milford, 101, and his wife Anita, 100, are the longest married couple in the UK, they celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary today.

They have lived together since they married on 26 May 1928, and now they have reached their oak wedding anniversary, and match Percy and Florence Arrowsmith who reached the same milestone in 2006.

Frank and Anita celebrated their wedding anniversary with a party at their care home in Plymouth Devon, with their family and friends.

Frank and Anita have two children, Marie, 78, and Frank, 73. They also have five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

The couple said that the secret of their happy marriage is, a little kiss before bed, trips to bingo, and good plain English food .

Anita added, Couples these days don t last long because they don t take enough time for each other. There just isn t enough respect.

Our advice to young couples would be to make time for a little romance every day.

Frank, a retired dock worker added, We re very proud of what we have achieved.

When we started we had low wages and worked very hard.

The war years were tough, a bomb even dropped on our house.

But we have come through it. Young people today want it all too fast.

Frank and Anita said they met at a YMCA dance in 1926, and they were married two years later at Torpoint register office in Cornwall.

1926 was the same year that the first 1 note came into circulation, and Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

Link to Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJQYPJzTEo

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