Double birthday - just like Queen
Pensioner Kathleen Rhodes has been compared to the Queen - because like the monarch she has two birthdays each year. As a child, Kathleen, from Telford, always celebrated her birthday on November 17, but she later found her date of birth was officially recorded as December 17. Pensioner Kathleen Rhodes, pictured with husband Bert, has been compared to the Queen - because like the monarch she has two birthdays each year. As a child, Kathleen, from Telford, always celebrated her birthday on November 17, but she later found her date of birth was officially recorded on her birth certificate as December 17. She said she did not have a clue which was the real date and is refusing to celebrate her 80th birthday this year as a result. The grandmother of four said she believed her birthday was in November until she was 17 and was asked to produce a copy of her birth certificate for a job at Maddock's Foundry in Oakengates. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star
As a child, Kathleen, from Telford, always celebrated her birthday on November 17, but she later found her date of birth was officially recorded on her birth certificate as December 17.
She said she did not have a clue which was the real date and is refusing to celebrate her 80th birthday this year as a result.
The grandmother of four said she believed her birthday was in November until she was 17 and was asked to produce a copy of her birth certificate for a job at Maddock's Foundry in Oakengates.
"My mum couldn't find it so she had to send to Somerset House in London for a copy and when it came through my date of birth was December 17, so I don't know when I was born," she said.
"My mother always believed my birthday was in November. So I don't know whether my father made a mistake in registering my birth or what.
"But I've said I'm not having a birthday this year because if I'm going to have two birthdays a year, I'll be 160 and I don't want to be that old."
The pensioner, of School Grove, Oakengates, said her daughter likened her to the Queen because of the date mix-up and other family members sent cards at different times of the year.
"I save the cards in November, but I don't like having a December birthday because they get mixed up with the Christmas cards," she said.
"One of my daughters sends her card in November and the other in December.
"It's quite confusing. I still say my birthday is November 17, but I just don't know."
Daughter Christine Tonks, of Ketley Bank, said: "Since I was a kid I've called her the Queen because she has two birthdays."
By Becky Parkinson
