Ethel Caterham has marked her 117th birthday surrounded by friends and family after a remarkable year which included meeting the king and becoming the world's oldest living person

Ethel Caterham, who lives at Hallmark Lakeview Care Home in Lightwater, Surrey, is spending her birthday on Friday with family and friends.

Ethel Caterham has lived through the Titanic disaster, both world wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall and six monarchs