His wife, newly married, said of him: “He is handsome, and a good kisser.” A few days after the wedding of the nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, here is that of the war veteran Harold Terens, one hundred years old, with his wife Jeanne Swerlin, 96. They got married on Saturday morning in Carentan-le-Marais, a village in Normandy where they had gone to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Allied landing. Eighty years ago, Harold Terens was among them. Today he returned to Normandy with the woman “who gives meaning to my life” and got married in the town hall, with “a small group of loved ones”. Thus the municipal official Sarah Pasquier, who celebrated the eightieth anniversary.
In the afternoon, if they are not too tired, the newlyweds will join a military parade of veterans. And in the evening they will participate in the D-Day commemorative ball, where they are asked to dress in 1940s style and, for those who can, in uniform. From French President Emmanuel Macron, like other veterans, Terens had already received the Legion of Honor.
Terens and his wife live in Florida, in Boca Raton. He has been a widower since 2018; he spent the previous seventy years alongside his first wife, Thelma, who bore him three grown-up children. After three years of mourning, a mutual friend introduced him and Jeanne, a “charismatic” woman who “lights up my life and makes everything beautiful.” Thus Terens to the AFP agency. “It gives meaning to my life.” She counterpointed: «He is an incredible guy. He’s very handsome and he also kisses well.”
