THEY may be Britain’s biggest family, but they love going away abroad too.
Sue Radford has announced she is booking another sunny getaway for her bumper brood – after doing 24 holidays in 24 months.
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Reality stars Sue and Noel took their kids to Disneyland Paris at Christmas, and they are planning another upcoming trip away.
Taking to Instagram yesterday, Sue revealed how she had been doing some passport admin for her kids.
She said: “Passport update for anyone wanting to know how long it took.
“They got approved, one yesterday and one today, so it took 13 days from paying online to them getting approved and printed.”
Sue said how she had got two first passports and daughter Ellie needed a renewal, which had taken five days to get approved and delivered.
The mum praised the online system as being “a really really good service”, and said: “I will say online is definitely quicker.”
And excitingly, the successful passport admin means the family can get away once more for a holiday.
Sue teased her fans saying: “Now roll on some chill time and sun.”
She didn’t reveal a specific destination or whether anything was booked yet, but with Easter and summer on the horizon, there could be a trip on the horizon.
The Radfords have been busy lately with the launch of their new book, The Radfords: Making Life Count.
Despite the fact it was only released on February 29, the book has already climbed to second place on the prestigious list of bestsellers.
In the book, Sue was keen to clap back to the haters, who initially doubted the couple when Sue fell pregnant during her teens.
She concluded: “When I look at our family today, I occasionally think about the doubters – and the people who were nasty or turned their backs on me when I was expecting Chris.
“My message to them would be, ‘Look at us now, and what we have got.
“We are still together, more than 35 years on, with 22 kids, 10 grandchildren and two successful businesses.’”
Who’s who in the Radford family?
SUE and Noel have 22 children . . .
- Chris – May 7, 1989
- Sophie Rose – December 13, 1993
- Chloe Anne – July 31, 1995
- Jack Richard – April 9, 1997
- Daniel Leon – March 3, 1999
- Luke James – October 1, 2000
- Millie Jo – August 29, 2001
- Katie Louise – November 14, 2002
- James Edward – October 17, 2003
- Ellie May – May 6, 2005
- Aimee Elizabeth – April 21, 2006
- Josh Benjamin – July 3, 2007
- Max Joseph – December 11, 2008
- Tillie May – May 2, 2010
- Oscar Will – October 22, 2011
- Casper Theo – October 3, 2012
- Alfie Thomas – July 6, 2014
- Hallie Alphia Beau – June 3, 2015
- Phoebe Willow – July 24, 2016
- Archie Rowan – September 18, 2017
- Bonnie Ray – November 6, 2018
- Heidie Rose – April 3, 2020
In addition to their lavish Christmas getaway, the family have had multiple holidays in their new motorhome.
This includes trips to Edinburgh, Legoland, Centre Parcs and Alton Towers.
Even the mum of Britain’s biggest brood needs some down time though, with her and her husband Noel also having some luxury getaways together.
Rather than just sticking to the UK though, the couple have also jetted off to the Maldives and Dubai.
In fact, the family have been on 24 holidays within the last 24 months – something most of us can only dream of.
Sue and Noel shot to fame in 2012 as the parents of Britain’s largest brood, landing a brand new series with Channel 5 in 2021.
They are parents to Chris, 34, Sophie, 30, Chloe, 28, Jack, 26, Daniel, 25, Luke, 23, Millie, 22, Katie, 21, James, 20, Ellie, 18, Aimee, 17, Josh, 16, Max, 15, Tillie, 13, Oscar, 12, Casper, 11, Hallie, eight, Phoebe, seven, Archie, six, Bonnie, five and Heidie, three.
Sadly the couple’s 17th child Alfie was still born on July 6, 2014.
The couple own a thriving pie business, are on the fourth series of their successful TV show and post on a variety of social media channels, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
In their book Sue also opened up about the family’s previous issues at check-in desks, as she chimed in: “They do sometimes look at you like they’re thinking, ‘What on earth is going on here?’”
Not only this, but Noel explained that airport staff are often not too thrilled when the bumper brood arrive, as he claimed: “It’s just us arriving as one big group that they don’t seem to like. But splitting us up just creates other problems, not least for the check-in staff.
“There may have been a lot of us but what seemed to have been forgotten on that occasion was that we were all on one booking.
“The guy behind the desk who asked us to split up into two queues was logging in on his computer trying to check half of us in, and the woman at the other desk was doing the same for the other half.
“But it took about an hour to sort this out, simply because a family under one booking was being dealt with by two different people.”
Noel also admitted that he often feels ‘embarrassed’ when the family are queuing in public, as he shared: “We do tend to feel embarrassed when we’re all queuing up for something as we’re conscious the people behind us are going to have to wait longer than they might normally have to.
“But then we try to tell ourselves, ‘Well, if we were three different families in front of them, they would still have to wait the same amount of time.’ It does bother you, but then we think, ‘This is how it is. We’re a big family – we can’t help it’.”
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