STAYING in touch with Her Majesty… Norah Hamm from Ashburton will be sharing her 90th birthday with the country’s most popular nonagenarian next month.

Norah, a widow who lives at Home Park, has always been proud of her happy link to the Queen’s official birthday.

Yorkshire-born Norah has already marked her great day with an early birthday bash with 18 members of her family at the 16th century Furzeleigh Mill on the edge of Ashburton.

She and her husband Vic, who died at the end of the last century, had six children – Win, Pat, Michael, Mary, Peggy and Colin as well as Anthony, who was adopted.

The couple married in Bradford in RAF uniforms. Vic was a batman for one of the officers at the local RAF station while Norah worked in the officers’ mess.

They settled in Ashburton with Vic doing an assortment of jobs which included helping to build the A38 and working at Tuckers Malthouse and the local quarry.

Norah now boasts 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

Eldest daughter Win, who lives near her mum, said: ‘She often mentions her connection with the Queen.

‘She’s quite proud about it.’