"He told me: 'If you're lucky you marry me, or I'll kill you'. I was 26 years old. I got married," she told La Stampa five years ago.

Divorce was not even made legal in Italy until 1970, so Morano technically remained married to her abuser until he died in 1978. Her one true love was a World War One soldier who died in battle, and after her ill-fated marriage she never chanced another relationship.

“I didn’t want to be dominated by anyone,” she told the New York Times in 2014.

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Her blueprint for remarkable durability is also down to raw eggs – two a day to be precise.

Morano ate three eggs a day – two of them raw – for more than 90 years, The Telegraph reports, after she was diagnosed with anaemia at the age of 20.

"Emma has always eaten very few vegetables, very little fruit,” her doctor, Carlo Bava, told AFP. "When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner."

She has since cut down to two eggs a day, BBC News reports.

Of course, genes do come into play – Morano’s mother lived to 91 and her sisters all reached 100.

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