By Ryan Pilot
A serial bride grandmother is to wed toy boy number nine.
Pat Higgins has never married a man older than her, and her ninth husband will be 32 years her junior.
Fiance Mark Sanderson, 24, proposed to Pat in September last year.
Despite Mark's family unhappy with the engagement - and taunts of "maneater" and "black widow" - the 56-year-old is unrepentant about her career of short-lived marriages.
She said: "People call me a maneater and a black widow which is silly.
"I'm not a predator, I just like to be happy in life - what's wrong with that?
"I want to be with someone who treats me like I should be treated.
"Most of my family are very supportive of me, although Mark's family are not happy."
And despite the longest lasting five years and the shortest just five days -Pat insists this marriage will be forever.
She said: "I'm an eternal optimist and have thought every marriage was going to work.
"But this time I know it's going to last. People might say he is too young but age has got nothing to do with love."
Pat, of Longbenton, North Tyneside, first got hitched to Michael Kelly in 1974 but the marriage lasted only three years.
Some marriages ended with accusations of infidelity but in some cases Pat and her husband simply drifted apart.
It earned her a reputation as a maneater and as all of her grooms were younger than her she gained the cruel nickname of The Black Widow - named after the spider who eats her lovers.
But Pat pays no attention to the taunts. She said: "Younger men are more fun than men my age which suits me because I want to enjoy myself until I draw my last breath.
"I'm young at heart so young men suit me better.
"I haven't done anything wrong - I haven't killed anyone or done anything illegal.
"People get divorced all the time so I don't know how people can judge me.
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