AKIPRESS.COM - A British wartime bride and her Canadian veteran husband have died five hours apart - a month after celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary.

George and Jean Spear met in 1941 at a dance hall near London, while he was stationed in Britain during the Second World War, BBC reported.

The couple passed away in an Ottawa hospital on Friday after Mrs Spear, 94, was admitted for pneumonia.

She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2006.

Mrs Spear and her 95-year-old husband met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their 2011 Royal Tour.