Husband of National Lottery winner Annette Rooke says his wife still tries to share her luck with all the family.
Terry Rooke told
getreading his wife buys Lucky Dip tickets to post to family members in every birthday card she sends.
Mrs Rooke, from Calcot, won £2.4 million in the National Lottery four years ago.
Last week she and her husband, both 61, were at a party of the region’s biggest lottery winners in East Grinstead in the run-up to the record-breaking £166 million Euromillions draw.
Mr Rooke said they still bought lottery tickets each week, although “nowadays we are more clued up and buy them online”.
He said when they won the lottery he had been thinking about retirement from his job as a prison warder.
“We were preparing to retire and winning the money made everything so much easier,” he said.
“It changed our lives for the better.”
The cash has allowed the couple to help their adult son and daughter.
It also allows them to have “lovely holidays” of the kind that previously they could only dream of.
The main difference is that when the couple take one of their “lovely holidays” they can afford to travel first class wherever they go.
“It has really helped to make life easier for us,” Mr Rooke said.
“We don’t lead a life of luxury all the time.
“I still clean the car myself, like I always did.”
More than 2,500 lottery winners across the UK have joined the Millionaire’s Club.
At the party in East Grinstead, the 20 winners from the South East had won a total exceeding £56m.
Research by Dr Richard Tunney from the University of Nottingham has found that winning the jackpot on the National Lottery is more like learning to ride a bike or having a grandchild than buying a dream car or getting married.
Having drawn his findings from 131 jackpot winners, he concluded that the effects of winning the lottery provide long-term happiness – like riding a bike or giving up smoking – whereas the happy effects of getting married, buying a dream car or having cosmetic surgery wear off and happiness slips to previous levels.
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