A WOMAN who has lived through three London Olympic Games has celebrated her 106th birthday.

Ella Dacombe received congratulations from the Queen for the fourth time after messages for her diamond wedding, and her 100th and 105th birthdays.

Mrs Dacombe, who mostly lives in Trull with her daughter and son-in-law, June and Peter Light, had a double celebration at a whist drive with 33 friends on Saturday, followed by lunch at Taunton Rugby Club on Sunday – her actual birthday.

Though she has a home in Ringwood, Hampshire, she has joined in the community in the Taunton area, and regularly attends meetings of Taunton Wine Circle and whist drives at Ruishton village hall.

Mrs Dacombe was born at Loders, near Bridport, before moving with her father to farms, first in Ferndown and later at Bisterne, near Ringwood.

She and her late husband, Arthur, who was mentioned in dispatches in the Second World War, ran a fruit and veg shop in Bournemouth, and later had their own farm on the Bisterne Estate.

She has a son and daughter, three grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

When she was born in 1906, Edward VII was king and it was two years before the Olympics came to London, returning in 1948 and again this summer.