Woman who survived a Nazi assassination attempt, a plane crash and breast cancer, has successfully beaten coronavirus at the age of 99.
Joy Andrew miraculously recovered from Covid-19 at Minster Grange care home in York, North Yorks, where more than 30 residents are thought to have died.
Daughter Michele Andrew said staff called her on May 30 to say her mum “was at the end of life” with “fluctuating” oxygen levels and wasn’t eating or drinking – before she suddenly started to recover.
But Joy is no stranger to close calls, having faced death and lived to tell about it on numerous occasions over the years.
“My mother survived an assassination attempt in post war Germany by her chauffeur, later identified as a Nazi, she survived a crash landing in the desert as one of BOAC’s first air hostesses, and was rescued by Bedouins, and she survived breast cancer,” explained Michele.
“She certainly wasn’t going to let coronavirus defeat her.”
One day, the driver picked her up and, en route to the destination, deliberately crashed the car in an attempt to kill her, The driver was arrested and turned out to be a Nazi.
The plane, a comet, crashed in Libya and broke upon impact. The crew survived including Joy but one passenger died. They were all stranded in the desert and rescued by bedouins.
In the 1970s Joy defeated breast cancer.
