BILLY BUTLIN MARRIED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 3

BILLY BUTLIN MARRIED

Sister Of First Wife

>N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. September 22. Mr “Billy” Butlin, Britain’s holiday camp king, yesterday married Norah, aged 44, whom the world has known for 23 years as Mrs Butlin, at a London registry office. One of Mr Butlin’s two daughters. Cherrie, aged 19, who married 26-year-old actor Roy Daniels in Perth. Australia, in May this year, sent the couple a telegram saying: “Australia is a wonderful place for a honeymoon. But there will be no noneymoon for the Butlins yet. They are too busy. “Tonight I’m taking my wife to the pictures,’’ Mr Butlin said.' South African-born, Mr Butlin. aged 58, went to Canada in 1910 and after World War I arrived in Britain on a Canadian passport with 15 dollars in his pocket. He told reporters after yesterday’s ceremony: “In all these 23 years we have wanted to marry, but we have been unable to because of my first marriage.” After the wedding Mrs Butlin said: “I’m so very, very happy, we have always been happy together, but I always hoped the day would come when it would be possible for us to marry—it means just as much to me now as marriage means to any woman.”

Norah was the sister of Mr Bultin’s first wife, Dorothy, who died more than a year ago. Billy and Dorothy married in 1926 and parted in 1932. Norah and Billy then fell in love and decided to live together.