BESOTTED couple Fred and Betty Aldred celebrated a right royal 60th wedding anniversary at a Dorset care home.
The Queen sent a congratulatory message to the couple.
Betty, who lives with dementia, is a resident at Colten Care’s Fernhill home in Longham while Fred lives at Colten Care’s Kingfishers in New Milton.
The couple, who have two children, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, met in the early 1950s at the hospital where Betty worked as a nurse.
Fred was in the Metropolitan Police and persuaded Betty to go on a date.
He proposed 18 months later and they were married in Ilford.
In 1960 they moved to Hertford-shire where they raised their two daughters and after retiring they relocated to Barton-on-Sea.
Betty, 83, moved into Fernhill nearly two months ago and has had a new lease of life. Fred, 84, visits as often as he can.
He said: “We’ve had some rough and smooth times but in the end we always end up best of friends.”
Daughter Mandy added: “Col-ten Care has done them proud; there has been such a change in mum since she’s been there.
“Dad has always worshipped the ground she walks on and to see them so happy again is wonderful.”
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