World’s oldest person and last living subject of Queen Victoria dies aged 117

‘You know, sometimes I ask myself, “Am I really 110 years old?” because I don’t feel like 110.’

Violet was still living in the same house she was born in when she died this week.

Queen Elizabeth II sent Violet a plaque to commemorate her longevity when she became the oldest citizen of the

 Commonwealth – and as well as that, she held the record as the last living subject of Queen Victoria.

In her early life, Violet worked as a plantation worker cutting sugar cane and working as a maid as a survivor of 

‘post slavery’ according to the family.

As time went on she purchased her own property and became an entrepreneur, owning the only bread depot in the district.

She once told the Jamaica Observer that she ‘likes fish and mutton and sometimes she will have cow foot.’

A staunch contributor to her church, she said ‘My faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of 

the bible’ helped her reach such a long age.