This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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A retired couple are having a “life-changing” experience after winning £53m in National Lottery and becoming the first ever Britain’s to have won such a big prize. According to 67-year-old Richard and Angela Maxwell, they first thought it was an April Fools’ Day joke. The couple from Coningsby near Boston in Lincolnshire received £53,193,914 for winning the EuroMillions jackpot in Tuesday’s draw, making their place in 10th place on the National Lottery rich list.
A semi-retired consultant in the poultry industry, Maxwell, explained that “I always keep our lottery tickets in the kitchen drawer so I took a break and went online to check the results.” He alleged that “I looked first at the two Lucky Stars and noticed we had those. Then I scanned across to the first main number and immediately knew they all matched our numbers.” In his remarks, Maxwell explained that “I checked again and again, five times in total, as I couldn’t believe it. Then I saw only one ticket had won 53 million and I was in shock. I thought someone had scanned my ticket somehow and put it on the website as a joke. It was April Fools’ Day after all.”
According to Maxwell, he did not contact his wife to inform her for almost four more hours, i.e. until she got home from helping to cook for a local luncheon club, because “I knew Angela would be busy and wouldn’t answer her mobile phone so I waited till she got home. I kept myself busy making cups of tea for the builders because I couldn’t sit still but didn’t say anything to anyone.”
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