A WOMAN whose varied life has included attending the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday.

Anne Frome was born on March 15, 1922, as the only child of Geoffrey, a commercial traveller, and Gladys Bevington.

Her parents met in the hospital where Gladys nursed Geoffrey after he was wounded in the First World War.

Anne grew up in Northwood, London, where she attended St Helen’s School.

She left St Helen’s to read economics at University College London – a rare achievement for a woman in those times.

Anne joined the Intelligence Corps after finishing university and shortly before the end of the Second World War.

She was posted to Germany to use her economic skills to study how the German economy had managed to recover so swiftly and successfully after the First World War, and to see whether those lessons could be applied to the UK.

Anne spent nearly two years in Germany, and alongside her work she attended the Nuremberg war crimes trials, before returning to England.

Back in London, she worked as a journalist writing for The Economist.

Her father had retired to Hastings, where Anne met Peter Frome at the local tennis club.

Partnering on the tennis court turned into sharing a large flat in London with friends as each pursued their career – hers in journalism and his in architecture.

They were married on July 7, 1951, and bought a plot of land at Oxshott in Surrey;.

Here Peter designed a house and subsequent extensions to accommodate their children Nicholas, Alexandra and Andrew.

Anne taught in local schools while raising their family.

They lived in Oxshott until retiring in 1988 and moving to Broad Chalke near Salisbury where Anne was a regular at church and took up watercolour painting.

Peter died in 2009 and Anne moved to Odiham in 2018 to be closer to her children and grandchildren.

She had a stroke soon after and since then has lived at Pax Hill care home in Bentley.

There she has received wonderful care from the many kind and attentive staff who have helped her get to this great milestone.