NOT many couples have been married longer than the Queen and Prince Philip but this Athersley couple have - and they celebrated their anniversary on the day of the royal wedding.
Clarence and Violet Richardson celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on Saturday by watching Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tie the knot.
They married on May 19 1945 - less than two weeks after VE day and more than two years before Harry’s grandparents did.
Clarence, 91 and Violet, 93, of Wingfield Road, Athersley South, married at Barnsley Register office when the colliery surface worker, of Park Avenue in Cudworth, was 18 and cinema projectionist Violet, from Wilman Road, Burton Grange, was 20.
They’ve since raised right children and have 19 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
