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Aug. 08, 1959 - Runaway Heiress from South Africa arrives in London with her sweetheart: Beautiful Vera Middleton, the 20-year-old runaway heiress from Cape town, South Africa, and her sweetheart, 26-year-old Bill Scott, arrived in London yesterday. They had arrived earlier in the liner Carnarvon Castle at Southampton with only £2 between them. A court order had forbidden Vera, daughter of a wealthy retired building contractor, to leave South Africa, but when sheriff's men went aboard with her parents at Capetown sympathetic members of the crew hid Vera under a bunk behind some suitcases in one of the cabins. Bill, who holds a pilot licence, ants to join the R.A.F. Vera wants a job in a beauty parlour. Photo shows a stroll through Hyde Park doesn't cost a penny so it's just the thing for Vera and Bill after their arrival in London yesterday

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