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London:A woman has become Britain's youngest grandmother at 23 after her daughter gave birth at the young age of 11.
Mother of two children, Rifca Stanescu had given birth to her first child when she was just 12.
Stanescu said she had urged her daughter Maria not to follow her example. But she still went ahead with her pregnancy.
For her marriage, Stanescu had eloped with a jewellery seller, 13, fearing her father intended her to marry another village boy in Investi, Romania.
Britain's youngest grandmother was an unnamed 26-year-old from Rotherham, Yorks. Her daughter, 12, gave birth in 1999.
Mother of two children, Rifca Stanescu had given birth to her first child when she was just 12.
Stanescu said she had urged her daughter Maria not to follow her example. But she still went ahead with her pregnancy.
For her marriage, Stanescu had eloped with a jewellery seller, 13, fearing her father intended her to marry another village boy in Investi, Romania.
Britain's youngest grandmother was an unnamed 26-year-old from Rotherham, Yorks. Her daughter, 12, gave birth in 1999.