BBCNEWS BBC News June 9, 2021 14:38:00
Joan was in her 90s and had dementia when, a few months before her death, a man 24 years herjunior married her without the family knowing until after she died. the witnesses were his son and a lady from the pub and none of the family or none of mum�*s friends knew about the marriage, and mum certainly didn�*t because she couldn�*t remember more than four minutes. according to the registrar�*s written account afterwards, they believed joan had the mental capacity to decide to wed, but daphne says her mother�*s dementia ruled that out. she really struggled to remember her date of birth...