Woman of 106 celebrated birthday on wrong day for more than century

One of the oldest women in Britain, aged 106, has been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day for more than a century, it has emerged.

Lena Thouless, a great-grandmother, from Bowthorpe, Norwich, has spent all her life celebrating her birthday on November 23.

But detective work by her daughter Lena Brooks discovered she should have tucked into her birthday cake the day before.



Mrs Brooks, 55, also of Bowthorpe, was stunned to discover purely by chance that the extraordinary centenarian was actually born on November 22.

She found her mother's birthday certificate and is baffled why the family has always marked the occasion a day late.

Mrs Brooks said: "We were quite surprised when we found it out. I have asked but no one in the family has any idea how the mishap occurred. But we still celebrate with mum on the 23rd as that's the day she has come to know as her birthday."