Dinkie Flowers from Shoreham celebrates her 100th birthday

Dinkie Flowers has marked the three figure milestone with her regular exercise routine, as well as a card from the Queen.

She started dancing when she was three and travelling the world, including dancing in front of the Iraqi Royal Family in Baghdad.

The Grandmother-of-four still runs dancing and fitness classes from her garage in Shoreham, but had to wind down due to the pandemic.

Dinkie has danced all around the world during her amazing career

But she turns 100 today and did her usual dance routine while raising money for the NHS as part of an incredible fundraiser.

Dinkie said: “Everybody says to me - what would you like to do if you could start all over again?

''I’ve always said this is what I’d do, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Dinkie had been teaching dance and keep fit classes right up until the first lockdown.

Since then, she's been doing three 45-minute keep fit sessions and three 20-minute walks a week - to raise money for the NHS Charities Together.

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Dinkie added: "I love it. I love dancing.

"What the hell does it matter how old I am? I'm still living and I'm still going strong. It doesn't matter whether I'm 30 or 100!

"I'm a terror for work. I don't work because I like it. I work because I love it. I think the thing is, not to sit on your bum all day. Do things. I have never stopped.

"Ballet, tap modern, demi character, all of it. I've been all over the world dancing. I think anyone can dance, even if it's only a little. It gives you the world of good for one thing. Your using your body.

"I mean, how does anybody expect in this world, to have a good body, walk well, feel well, if they're not doing anything? It's impossible."

Dinkie learnt her skills at London’s Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

After falling in love with ice skating, she went on to skate and dance all over the world.

She even performing for Prince Philip at an Ice Gala in 1952 for which she received a royal letter of thanks.

Through the British embassy – Dinkie also travelled to Iraq to teach the royal family ice skating.

At just 98 years young, Dinkie made her TV debut tap dancing her way through the auditions to appear on The Greatest Dancer.

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Her friend Lesley Tomlinson, who started the fundraiser, said: “She’s so amazing – there can’t be many people who are 100 and can do what she does.

“She’s on the floor running on the spot it’s incredible. Her posture is amazing – she can do anything I can do.

“She’s also had an amazing life.”

Dinkie Flowers once danced for the Queen's husband Prince Philip

Dinkie's husband George, who managed the famous Raymond Revuebar in London, died in 2005.

The couple had a daughter Sarah and four grandchildren.

Dinkie’s fundraiser can be found here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lesley-tomlinson2