Couple Who Have Been Married For 70 Years Share Their Secret to Marital Bliss

A couple who have been happily married for 70 years have shared their words of wisdom on a long and successful relationship. Childhood sweethearts, Wilfred, 94, and Iris Miles, 89, from Cannock, Staffordshire, England, first met at a dance near Walsall, West Midlands, in the late 1940s. Wilfred said: "I asked her to dance and of course she said yes—thing is, she hasn’t left me alone since!” The couple can’t remember the proposal that led to seven decades of marital bliss, but Iris said: “He probably just asked me over tea on a Saturday night.” However, Iris can clearly remember the night she first met her husband and said it was love at first sight. "I thought, oh yes he’s the one for me and I’ve never wanted anyone else. I’ve loved him all these years,” Iris said. On March 10, 1951, the couple tied the knot at a local ...