A 109-year-old man rejected a birthday card from the Queen because she looks 'a bit miserable

Britain's oldest man turned 109 on Wednesday ' but he didn't want a card from the Queen.While this was partly because he didn't want to add clutter to his house, according to The Telegraph, he also said that he thought Her Majesty looked "a bit miserable."Robert Weighton, who was born in Hull in March 1908, is "still fit as a fiddle" according to The Telegraph, and says that he has "just been fortunate" to live to such an old age.Brits receive a card from the Queen when they turn 100. She despatches another message for 105th birthdays and each year a person lives beyond this.Weighton accepted a card from the Queen two years ago "because it's the only one I'd seen that she was smiling on," he said.However, he said: "I decided not to receive a card every year from the Queen, because I didn't want a huge collection of cards that I add to every year... In the rest of the cards she looked a bit miserable while on official duties."Weighton does accept a card from Alfred Smith of Perth, Scotland, with whom he shares the title of oldest man in Britain."I saw a story about him and saw we were both the same age and shared the title of oldest man, so I sent a letter to him," Weighton said. "We send each other cards now on our birthday, but I'm not sure which of us is slightly older."Weighton: There's no secret to long lifeWeighton's wife, Agnes, passed away in 1997. The two had three children, and he now has 10 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren, according to The Telegraph. Throughout his life, he has lived in Japan, Taiwan, Canada, and the US.When asked what the secret to long life is, he said: "I've eaten food I never thought I'd eat, made friends with people I never thought I would meet and been places I never thought I would go ' but I'm not sure there really is a secret to living so long.""As with everything in my life, it has just kind of happened to me, it's not been my choice and I have had to make the best of it."Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Here's the surprising reason highways have those concrete walls alongside them
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