Finally married! Teenage sweethearts separated during World War Two tie the knot almost 70 years on

• Bob Humphries, 89 and Bernie Bluett, 87 met as teenagers in South Wales
• Mr Humphries sent love letters including a marriage proposal that were intercepted by his sweetheart's parents

The look of love: Bernie Bluett glances at her new husband on the steps of the church. The 88-year-old said: 'When circumstances brought us closer together, we finally got married after all these years'

They became teenage sweethearts on a summer holiday – only to be cruelly separated by the outbreak of the Second World War. 

Then Bob Humphries and Bernie Bluett lost touch altogether when her disapproving parents kept his love letters from her – one of which included a marriage proposal. 

Now, nearly 70 years after that letter was sent, Mr Humphries, 89, and Mrs Bluett, 87, have tied the knot.

Mrs Bluett said: ‘I suppose the important thing is that we met all those years ago and it must have really left some sort if impression.

‘And when circumstances brought us closer together we finally got married after all these years.

‘Love has taken its sweet time – but I can safely say that we won’t be raising any children together

The pair met when Mr Humphries’ family starting going on holiday to the village of Appledore, North Devon, where Mrs Bluett lived.

Mrs Bluett admits she teased him when they were younger but began to look at him in a new light when he returned for a final holiday, aged 18, after he had joined the Army.

She said: ‘I used to tease him mercilessly. I don’t know why – it was a sort of challenge I think.

‘But then I saw him when I was 17, and he was 18, and he was this handsome soldier in khakis and the hormones were running wild, I thought I’m going to marry that man one day.’

The couple dated but when Bernie joined the Women’s RAF, based in South Wales, and Bob was enlisted with the 3rd Para Squadron Royal Engineers in Yorkshire, the pair lost touch.

For two years Mrs Bluett had waited for a reply to her letters, not realising her parents had stepped in to bring an end to the romance. 

She eventually married Roy Bluett, an RAF pilot, who she cared for as a military nurse, and moved to New Zealand to begin a new life. Meanwhile, Mr Humphries married Beryl and moved to Somerset. 

When Mrs Bluett’s husband passed away 11 years ago, and Mr Humphries’ wife died last year, the pair got back in touch.

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