Kate Middleton meets 100-year-old WWII veteran who ran marathons in his 60s

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Kate Middleton met with World War II veterans on Veterans Day, which is known as Armistice Day, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, with one 100-year-old former service member telling her he credits staying fit for his long life.

The man, Bill Redston, told the Princess of Wales he ran the London Marathon when he was 65 years old and the New York Marathon a year later, according to video posted to social media by PA reporter Stephanie Wareham.

The princess, who is Colonel of the Irish Guards, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm, and Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards, among other honorary titles, also spoke to the family of Squadron Leader Mark Long, who died in a Spitfire crash last