A couple from High Wycombe have recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.
Margaret and Gordon Beaumont, who currently reside at the Royal Star & Garter care home in the town, enjoyed a party and cake with family and other residents on April 10.
Margaret is a resident at the establishment, while Gordon, who is an Army veteran and lives nearby, visits his wife twice a day.
The two met in 1949 when Margaret was in her third year at Cambridge University studying maths when Gordon had recently completed his National Service with the Royal Signals and was commencing his course after deferring university entrance.
The couple tied the knot on April 10, 1954, in Stockport, and lived in Coventry where Margaret taught at a girls’ grammar school, with Gordon working as a research chemist for manufacturers, Courtaulds.
Among the guests at the great grandparents’ platinum anniversary party were their two daughters, sons-in-law and friends.
They all enjoyed a special lunch and cake made by the kitchen staff at the Home.
The Wellbeing Team at the Home edited a copy of the reminiscence newspaper Daily Sparkle, to make the Beaumonts’ anniversary front-page news. Margaret and Gordon also received a card from Their Majesties The King and Queen.
Margaret, 94, said afterwards: “I couldn't have chosen a better person to spend my life with. I'm very lucky.”
Gordon, 95, added: “We had a lovely day with family at Royal Star & Garter. Staff look after my Margaret, and they look after me whenever I'm in the Home.”
Daughter, Anne, added: “I'm so grateful for not only the care and love that Royal Star & Garter gives Mum, but the care and love they show to Dad whenever he's with her.
“They had a wonderful day celebrating their anniversary with family and friends, the Home did a great job organising a beautiful party for them.”
The couple take daily walks around Royal Star & Garter’s spacious garden to keep fit.
Gordon credits daily exercise, a frugal diet, teetotalism and the support of the NHS and care system for his long and happy life.
Royal Star & Garter in High Wycombe is welcoming new residents.
For more information on this, the new services running from the Home, or to work there, go to www.starandgarter.org/hw
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