'Housewife is Queen of Witches', Detroit Free Press, 7 March 1964

Detroit Free Press, 7 March 1964, page 27. A UPI wire report from London, with a cartoon of a witch on a broomstick: Monique Wilson, "whose witchcraft name is 'Lady Olwen'", is named chief beneficiary of Gerald Gardner's will, put at nearly $70,000 with a 450-year-old "witches' cottage" on the Isle of Man. She says she and her husband "will carry on the work of Dr. Gardner" and "work to alter the popular image of witchcraft". Shows how far the story travelled. How to cite: 'Housewife is Queen of Witches' (UPI), Detroit Free Press, 7 March 1964, p. 27. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

Housewife Is Queen Of Witches LONDON - (UPI) - A slim, black-haired young mother Friday became Britain’s “queen of the witches.” With the title went nearly $70,000, an eerie 450-year-old “witches’ cottage” on the Isle of Man - and a broomstick. Mrs. Monique Marie Wilson, whose witchcraft name is “Lady Olwen,” learned Thursday night that she was the chief beneficiary in the will of Dr. Gerald Brousseau Gardner, the 80-year-old leader of Britain's witches who died last month. Gardner, a former colonial official, became the nation’s leading expert on witchcraft. He called himself a “white witch,” one who does only good. Mrs. Wilson said she, her husband and their seven-year-old daughter would leave their prefabricated home in Perth, Scotland, and move into the cottage, where all of Gardner’s equipment and manuscripts await her. “My husband and I will carry on the work of Dr. Gardner,” she said. “We will work to alter the popular image of witchcraft. It is not an evil cult.”