Theirs is truly a story of a lifetime of love. Ron and Eileen Everest were born in the same maternity unit,
posed as “bride and groom” at a town carnival aged four, married for real at 21
and now, 70 years later, are celebrating their platinum wedding anniversary.
The couple, both 91, said that they had spent their
entire lives loving each other after being born seven months apart at the Royal
Navy maternity hospital in Gillingham, Kent. Their sailor fathers were good friends, having fought together in
the First World War, and the families remained close as the children grew up,
dressing them as a married couple for the Gillingham Carnival in 1926.
There then followed 14 years of separation as Mr Everest’s
parents began a new life in Scotland and his future bride moved to south
London.
