UK woman owns world’s oldest Easter egg

Easter Sunday is celebrated by millions of people all over the world. It also marks the end of Lent, a 40-day period of austerity, fasting, and penance.

Easter Sunday, which commemorates Christ’s resurrection on Day 3 (following his crucifixion on Good Friday), is a day that children look forward to because of the chocolate eggs, Easter egg hunts, and so on.

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On Easter Sunday, various traditions involving the egg are observed such as artificial chocolate eggs or decorated hard-boiled eggs. 

Many people collect Easter eggs and keep them for years. But no one has done it better than Hillion Fern, a 75-year-old grandmother from the United Kingdom who owns the world’s oldest unopened Easter egg.

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Fern was only 13 years old when her father gave her an Easter egg from a local shop. The 9-inch chocolate egg was adorned with daffodil-shaped yellow icing.

Incredibly, it is still in mint condition even after 62 years.

Despite being a self-confessed chocoholic, Hillion said she decided not to eat the sweet treat. To keep the egg from melting, she spends £80-a-month (Rs 8,000) on a cool storage container to keep the egg from.

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Hillion, who is a retired wildlife trust worker, has two children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. All of them have seen her Easter egg.

I still remember the day I was given it. It was simply too pretty that I didn’t want to eat it. I thought to myself, ‘I’ll keep it until Whitsun’ but I then never ate it, so then I thought, ‘Oh, I will keep it until Christmas’ and then Christmas came and went,” said the 75-year-old.

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“There was something special about the egg I wanted to keep, and it became too precious to eat after a while. I’m confident it’s a world-beater “She continued.

Hillion stated that the egg has now become a part of her family and that she intends to keep it for the rest of her life.