Brit woman, 115, is world’s oldest and reveals secret to long life after outliving both her children

A BRITISH great-granny aged 115 years and 254 days has become the world’s oldest woman.

claimed the title after Brazilian nun died at 116.

She has been widowed since husband Norman died in 1976 and their two daughters, Gem and Anne, have also passed away.

Ethel celebrated her 115th birthday last August with a Frank Sinatra tribute act at her care home in Lightwater, .

Grand-daughter Alex Peeters, 54, told The Sun: “Having outlived my mum and my auntie, it’s incredible, really.”;

She revealed Ethel told her the secret to a long life is “never argue”;.

Alex, one of five grandchildren, added: “She did yoga as a young woman, loved a sherry and played bridge until her 90s.”;

Ethel, born in in 1909 and raised in , wed in 1933 then moved with Norman to before raising their kids back in the UK.

She said in 2022: “Family’s the most important thing in life.”;

Anna Eliza Williams was the last British woman to be the world’s oldest, dying in 1987 aged 114.