9 August 2013
A tribute to fraudster Robert Maxwell’s widow, Betty, who has just died aged 92, from former Mirror editor Mike Molloy.
“I knew Betty Maxwell quite well. I’m convinced she had no knowledge of his darker side at all,” Molloy tells me. “She met Maxwell when she was running a club for Allied officers during the Second World War and fell hopelessly in love with him. For the rest of her life she remained in denial about his character and was convinced he was the young Lochinvar she first encountered in 1944.
“She had a vast safe at Headington Hill Hall that contained every scrap of paper and photograph ever taken but nothing incriminating. Poor Betty, maybe she was his greatest victim.”
