This Day in History: 2022-11-29

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BILLY WRIGHT AND JOY BEVERLEY WED (1958)

The England captain Billy Wright and Joy Beverley, a member of singing group the Beverley sisters, who had several hits during the 1950s, can claim to be football’s first celebrity couple nearly four decades before the Posh and Becks phenomenon. In March 1958 the couple married in Poole, Dorset, and would remain together for 36 years until Wright’s death in 1994. They had tried to keep the details of their wedding a secret, but news leaked out and up to 7,000 fans gathered around the Poole register office.

Joy Beverley, wife of Wolves and England captain Billy Wright, is flanked by her sisters Teddy and Babs in the stands at Molineux.