Lionel and Clarice Davidge were teenagers when they first met.
Now the couple are celebrating 70 years of marriage.
Mr and Mrs Davidge marked their platinum wedding quietly at their home at Bourne Court, London Road, Brighton.
Mrs Davidge, 89, said: "We have lived a fairly quiet life and we don't do a lot of celebrating."
The couple married at Greenford, Middlesex, in 1933. They lived in Middlesex and Devon before moving to Brighton in the Nineties.
Mr Davidge, 88, served in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War and was at Luneburg Heath when Montgomery accepted the German surrender in 1945.
He said being away had helped the long marriage but he had not realised the anniversary had "crept up on us so soon".
The couple have a son, Lionel. Their daughter Frances died last year.
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