Lovers helped
The marriage Dians of Vera Zeiner and Oswald Unterleichner, students from Vienna, were constantly frustrated by opposition from their parents who wanted them to finish their studies first, reported 8.8. C. “World Service.” So the couple decided to elope to Gretna Green in Scotland. On their way north they stopped to earn some money in the pleasant fruitgrowing town of Evesham, deep in the heart of the English Midlands. Local townspeople heard of their plight, pointed out that the couple were eligible to be married under English law, and persuaded them to get married in Evesham instead. The tradesmen gave Vera and Oswald the wedding of their dreams. They provided a wedding-dress and hair-do for the bride, a taxi, a reception in a local restaurant and a few days’ honeymoon in a local country house. They also paid telephone calls to Vienna. Said Vera in a 8.8. C. radio interview: “I hadn’t realised people could be so nice.”
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 11
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