Davy Moakes, 86, and Helen Andre, 82, feel like they're teenagers again 
 
 'It feels the same' 
 
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 ROMANTICS often say that true love will always find a way, and that’s certainly the case for one happy couple. 
 
 Davy Moakes, now 86, and Helen Andre, 82, met and fell in love at art college and Davy asked for Helen’s hand in marriage in 1951. 
 
 SWNS:South West News Service 5 Davy Moakes and Helen Andre on their wedding day, which was 65 years after they’d originally planned 
 
 Helen’s parents Aaron and Gertrude didn’t want her to marry an artist though, so they called things off. 
 
 Both went on to marry other people, but after their partners died they reconnected and they married on November 11 this year. 
 
 “It’s so strong the love between us,” Davy said. 
 
 SWNS:South West News Service 5 Davy Moakes, seen around the time he met Helen in the 50s 
 
 “Even after all this time, it still feels the same. It’s just perfect, it’s just how it was. 
 
 “We’re no spring chickens so we decided if we still had these strong feelings for each other then we best get on and get married. 
 
 “Helen is medically blind, and when I saw her I thought if we’d been allowed to marry her before I’d be taking care of her. 
 
 “So all I wanted to do is care for her now. I can’t actually remember how we proposed, it wasn’t anything dramatic, it would have just been over a nice kiss.” 
 
 The pair got back in touch after Helen found a sculpture by Davy’s son Adrian, 57, in the village where they’d first met. 
 
 SWNS:South West News Service 5 Helen at her first wedding to Tony Rollings, who passed away after a cancer battle 
 
 Her daughter Debbie tracked Davy down using social media, but he was married to his second wife. 
 
 She passed away 18 months ago, and after that Davy visited Helen and they released they had feelings for each other. 
 
 They married in a registry office then went on a two-week honeymoon in Cyprus. 
 
 “We’re just relaxing on the balcony together on the deck chairs after a very hectic time,” Davy said. 
 
 Helen was 16 when she met Davy, who was 21. 
 
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 They got engaged the following year and planned to wed when she was 19, but by 1953 it was all over. 
 
 “It was very unfair, because I never said I wanted to be an artist,” Davy said. 
 
 “I wanted to become a teacher to establish myself and be able to support a marriage financially.” 
 
 Davy’s dad made an effort to get them together at a dance in 1956 and they tried to make it work, but Helen’s mum and dad weren’t on board. 
 
 SWNS:South West News Service 5 Helen lost her third husband Dennis to cancer in 2010. She married her second spouse Raymond in 2000 but he passed away two years later 
 
 They even locked her in her room to keep her away from Davy, and their relationship fizzled. 
 
 Davy went on to marry twice, while Helen wed three times. 
 
 She married her first husband Tony Rollings in 1960, but unbelievably she came face-to-face with Davy at a charity ball in 1964. 
 
 “We realised we were very much still in love,” Davy recalled. 
 
 “But we both had children and were married, and so we agreed that we could not be together.” 
 
 SWNS:South West News Service 5 Helen’s parents, Gertrude and Aaron West 
 
 It was after the loss of Davy’s second wife Margaret that they reconnected. 
 
 Helen had been widowed and was living with her daughter Debbie. 
 
 Davy moved to be closer to her in Derbyshire, and they decided to tie the knot because they are “old fashioned” and didn’t want to just live together. 
 
 “I have loved him my whole life,” Helen said. 
 
 “We always got on, but after we had children we couldn’t be together. 
 
 “But now I’ve got him. I’m enjoying every minute of it. 
 
 “I feel like a teenager again, it really is like nothing’s changed.” 
 
 We recently reported on another heartwarming story, after a couple asked for help tracking down a stranger who gifted them money for a date. ||||| Image caption The couple were finally married on Friday after 65 years apart 
 
 A couple have finally married after they were forced to call off their engagement 65 years ago. 
 
 A family row meant Helen Andre, 82, and Davy Moakes, 86, from Derbyshire, never tied the knot in 1951. 
 
 Ms Andre's daughter Debbie Williams, who tracked Mr Moakes down, said the pair were "madly in love" after being reunited. 
 
 She said they originally split because her mother's parents did not approve of his job as an artist. 
 
 Image copyright Family handout Image caption Mr Moakes's career as an artist led to his break-up with Helen Andre 
 
 "Back in the 1950s [being an artist] was probably wasn't considered a good career for a future son-in-law," she said. 
 
 "It broke both their hearts but in those days you did as you were told." 
 
 Ms Williams said after her mother became widowed for a third time she decided to find Mr Moakes. 
 
 She said: "They got talking and rekindled their relationship and they fell madly in love... I am so happy for them." 
 
 Image caption The couple said their love for each never went away 
 
 The couple, who have outlived five partners between them, were married at Ripley register office on Friday afternoon. 
 
 Mr Moakes said: "If you love someone as much as we do it never goes away." 
 
 The new Mrs Moakes said: "I've loved him all my life, I'm overjoyed, we're together at last."
– Think it's not possible to feel like a teenager again when you reach your 80s? It's entirely possible, according to an English couple told to break off their engagement 65 years ago—and who finally got to tie the knot. "Even after all this time, it still feels the same," says Davy Moakes, 86, of new bride Helen Andre, 82. "It's just perfect," he tells the Sun. "It's just how it was." The couple met and fell in love in art school when Moakes was 21 and Andre was 16, but their pairing back then was not to be. They got engaged in 1951, but Andre's mother apparently did not approve of an artist son-in-law and demanded they break it off, reports the BBC. The couple reunited after Andre found a sculpture by Moakes’ 57-year-old son, Adrian, in the small town where they'd first met. Moakes' second wife died 18 months ago, and Andre had recently become widowed for a third time. "I've loved him all my life," the new Mrs. Moakes says. Neither too old to marry nor too old to travel, the newlyweds opted for a two-week honeymoon in Cyprus. (A similar story recently unfolded in New Jersey.)