A 100-year-old glamorous grandma who lived through World War Two has revealed her bizarre eating habit which could be the secret to her long life.
Muriel Edwards, who was born on October 30, 1921, has a strange intake of three tubs of clotted cream a week.
She celebrated her 100th birthday with a party at Kings Tamerton Social Club last weekend.
Her younger sister Mo explained: "She buys three tubs of clotted cream a week and has three sugars in her tea.
"She'll have like a piece of swiss roll or something and put clotted cream on top of that, everything's got clotted cream on it.
"When I was a young girl and we used to go to work together, we used to run home for dinner because we were fit then.
"When I used to get home there, I'd have a cup of coffee or a tea, and she would have a glass of milk and she'd spoon half the tub of clotted cream into the cold milk.
"She would drink it and you could see the look of ecstasy on her face when she'd get a lump of clotted cream.
"And you can't look at her and say 'that's not good for you Muriel', because she's 100 years old and her health seems to be better than anyone else's!"
Despite the lifelong wacky food request, the grandma has lived an eventful life, having lived through World War Two, survived the Plymouth Blitz and later even helped to make a mattress for Princess Diana when working for Ernesettle company Vispring.
Muriel said: "I was 18 in the war, I got married in the war, and my son was born in the war. I was in Milehouse the whole time and we went through it all.
"I was going to get married so I was collecting things to start a home with and when the bombs dropped I lost it all. We had to move house."
Nevertheless, Muriel went on to buy one of the first homes on a newly built housing estate in Plymouth, believed to be the last remaining original resident of the street.
She is now a mother to two children, grandmother-of-five and great grandmother to a handful all over the world.
Her daughter Pat described her mother as a "fantastic" and "determined" woman, who continues to take pride in her appearance with weekly upkeeps.
Pat said: "She has her hair done every week, her nails done, her toes painted. And she loves jewellery. Bling. It hasn't got to be expensive as long as it's shiny!"
As well as a royal birthday card from her Majesty The Queen, which sits proudly amongst bouquets of flowers and gifts from friends, Muriel has got a signed card from the monarch for one of her wedding anniversaries with her late husband.
The blissful couple met when they were 13 and 15, and went on to marry in 1942.
"He was two and half years older than her, they were devoted," explained Pat.
"My dad was in the scouts from eight to 80, he was well known in the community."
But these days, when she's not visiting friends or making sure she stays looking as glamourous as ever, Muriel loves to crochet.
"I've got a hobby," she says.
"I make blankets for the cats and dogs home, and I make blankets for the care home where my friend is for the people there.
"I crochet everyday... well I've got nothing else to do!"
