The Welsh Couple Who Won £1 Million Twice
Richard Davies and Faye Stevenson-Davies of Brecon, Wales won £1 million on the National Lottery's Lotto in late November 2025 — seven years after a £1 million EuroMillions Millionaire Maker win in 2018. They kept their everyday jobs.
Richard Davies and Faye Stevenson-Davies of Brecon, Wales won £1 million on the National Lottery's Lotto in late November 2025 — seven years after a £1 million EuroMillions Millionaire Maker win in 2018. They kept their everyday jobs.
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Sources
Tagged by proximity to the event. Primary sources are direct or contemporaneous; tertiary are downstream retellings.
- 1.Secondarynews
"Couple Beat Astonishing Odds to Win Lottery Millions Twice", The Daily Beast, 2025
Confirms names, ages, Brecon hometown, 2018 EuroMillions Millionaire Maker first win, £1m second win, jobs (courier; mental-health professional), and the ~1 in 24 trillion odds with the lightning-twice comparison attributed to experts via CNN. Fetched and verified.
- 2.Secondarynews
Local paper. Confirms game (Lotto), draw date 26 November 2025, five main numbers plus Bonus Ball, £1m prize, 2018 EuroMillions win, 24-trillion-to-1 odds, jobs, charities (Brecon & District Mind, The DPJ Foundation), and the 'fairy tales do come true' quote. Fetched and verified.
- 3.Secondarynews
Carries the PA wire copy. Key corroboration: the 24-trillion-to-1 odds figure is attributed to Allwyn, the National Lottery operator. Confirms Lotto, November 2025, five numbers plus bonus ball, 2018 EuroMillions Millionaire Maker, jobs, and direct quotes. Fetched and verified.
- 4.Primarywebsite
Operator's own winner page — the primary source for the announcement. Could NOT be fetched (HTTP 403 to automated requests), so its specific wording is not independently verified here; all facts cited in this entry are corroborated by the three fetched press sources, which themselves draw on this Allwyn announcement.