This year's Senior Blossom Festival Queen has been crowned.
Gwen Harrex was yesterday named the 2019 Senior Blossom Festival Queen, a title which has left her speechless.
''I'm not usually speechless, but I am,'' she said.
Gwen Harrex (left) has been crowned 2019 Senior Blossom Festival Queen and Rosemary Magrath is this year's runner-up. Photo: Alexia Johnston
The pair discovered, during the event, they are second cousins, both have a similar number of grandchildren and great grandchildren, and both have another great grandchild on the way.
They agreed the build-up to the event had been fun and they had made many new friends through the process, including those of fellow contestants Robin Hume, Sue Noble-Adams and Arielle Bazley.
