Queen's 'Birthday Card Team' Expands to Cope with Surge of 100-Year-Olds

[cinrit]

A little known Whitehall office responsible for ensuring that people celebrating their 100th birthday receive a card from the Queen has had to take on extra staff because of the dramatic increase in the number of centenarians.

The Department for Work and Pensions now has a seven-strong "Centenarian team" dedicated to keeping information on Britain's oldest citizens up to date after the number of people over the age of 100 jumped by 70 per cent in a decade.

New estimates published by the Office for National Statistics show that there are now almost 14,000 people over the age of 100 living in the UK, a five per cent rise in a single year.

More: Queen's 'birthday card team' expands to cope with surge of 100-year-olds - Telegraph

Cindy

[TLLK]

A few years back a centurion expressed her disappointment that she'd been receiving the same photo of HM on her birthday cards. Buckingham Palace issued her a new card with a different photo of HM and dispatched William to hand deliver the card to the birthday girl.  :)