A LOTTERY winner who thought her husband was playing an April Fool’s Day prank when he told her they had scooped £53 million (R932m) has returned to making lunches for pensioners a week after their big win.
Angela Maxwell said she would not give up her five-hour shift preparing meals at the lunch club at Coningsby Community Hall in Lincolnshire despite the big win.
The 67-year-old was seen arriving there on Wednesday morning, just days after her husband Richard stunned her with the news they had won £53m.
Asked what they planned to do with the money last week the couple, who have two adult children, said they would buy a new minibus for pensioners in the community.
Otherwise they intended to carry on as normal, they said, with the occasional splurge on holidays and designer clothes.
Mrs Maxwell had just returned from her shift at the community hall with a stack of dirty tea towels for washing last Thursday when she learned of the win.
At first she said she thought her husband was playing an April Fools’ Day prank, she said at the time. “I just didn’t believe it, then he showed me the numbers on the website and I dropped the basket of tea towels on the floor,” she said. “I then just sat down in the chair for about half-an-hour.”
The couple said they would not change their lives too drastically despite the windfall. – Daily Mail