I was Britain's oldest test tube mother

Eleanore Armstrong-Perlman (inset in 1997, main with her son Ben today) became ‘Britain’s oldest mother to have a test-tube baby’ when her twins were born at University College Hospital, London, on June 3, 1997. The hardest thing for Eleanore about becoming a mother at 54 was that her husband, Morris Perlman, a lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), the father of her children and the centre of her life, died just two weeks after the boys’ third birthday. He was 62.