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Words: Alan HoweProducer: Louise StarkeyVideo: YouTube | MyHeritage DNA
World’s oldest blogger dies age 109
Swedish centenarian Dagny Valborg Carlsson (nee Eriksson), who found fame as the world's oldest blogger when she had enough of retirement and taught herself how to use a computer 10 years ago, has died age 109.
Video: YouTube | MyHeritage DNA
Over the past decade, Mrs Carlsson — who went by the name Bojan online — has appeared across dozens of TV shows, acted in a TV series, written a biography, hosted radio shows and given speeches around Sweden.
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She started posting lively and humorous stories about her active days — even if they involved attending funerals — and her audience grew each day.
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By the time a documentary-maker turned up to film her new life, Mrs Carlsson's audience had topped 2.3 million and she was telling them how, at age 101, she had bought her first pair of jeans.
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Mrs Carlsson also spoke of her greatly admired grandmother and the old woman's life in the 19th century. She described getting a train across town to attend her younger sister's 90th birthday, and applying for a passport so she could travel again. All this appeared alongside the selfies she took every day.
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In March 2018, Mrs Carlsson was invited to Stockholm's royal palace to meet King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife, Queen Silvia, and explain her blogging to the royal couple.
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Mrs Carlsson was born in 1912, 23 days after the Titanic sank on the fourth day of its maiden journey and a few weeks before Stockholm hosted the fifth Olympics.
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At school she had wanted to be a teacher, but it was cut short and she was sent to work making shirts in a factory.  She worked for 20 years at the plant before completing her studies and becoming a foreman in a corset factory.
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She married twice, with her second union to carpenter Harry Carlsson being her "great love", allowing her to travel and lasting until the day he died from cancer in 2004. The duo never had any children.
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When Harry died I thought I was going to die too, it became so empty and lonely. But I did not die and then I decided to live.
Dagny Valborg Carlsson
World's oldest blogger
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That's when Mrs Carlsson booked computer lessons, changed her life and found fame. She died after a decade of making her mark online — in Solna, Sweden, on March 22 at age 109.
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Swipe up for more information on Mrs Carlsson's life and fame as the world's oldest blogger.
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