‘Romance over’
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 29. Miss Rachel Fitler, the wealthy 77-year-old aunt of Mrs “Happy" Rockefeller, the wife of the United States Vice-President designate, apparently has called off her engagement to a 29-year-old ! Welsh chauffeur, and police I were called to remove him from her estate today. “It’s finished,” said a member of Miss Filler’s staff. !“11ie engagement is off. The iwhoie thing is over.” | Miss Fitler was not available to confirm that an end ihad come.
The romance began in January, when Mr Michael Wilison was working as a butler lat a fashionable hotel in Florida, where Miss Filler was a guest. Later he worked for her as a chauffeur and companion and in July. Mr Wilson posted marriage banns in his home (town of Llay, in Wales. Together, Miss Filler and Mrs Rockefeller are said to ! control the Fitler family for- | tune, estimated at more than isBm in the 19305. Today, a member of Miss i Fitter’s staff said that Mt ! Wilson turned up at Miss (Fitter’s residence on Thurs. ‘day morning.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33706, 2 December 1974, Page 17
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