“Another day, I was called to the Marylebone Clinic to see what I could do after the Crown Prince of Arabia’s hair had turned white. I dyed his hair black at his bedside, surrounded by his concubines.”
When the family moved to Wallington to be near their son’s grammar school, “I opened another salon and became a member of Croydon Synagogue. We then sold the salon and moved to Sutton, where we became members of Sutton and District Synagogue and would often go to the friendship club.”
He has always kept a kosher home and is a regular at the Nightingale synagogue. He attributes his longevity to “a positive outlook on life” and, possibly, an occasional tot of whisky, although he now forgoes that – and has also recently stopped smoking his pipe.
He is said to be the third oldest man in the UK.
