EuroMillions nan thought she’d won £34m for 10 minutes before her dreams were crushed
dailystar.co.uk£34million in the EuroMillions for 10 minutes before her dreams were cruelly crushed.Margaret De Micheli, 72, bought her ticket on March 29 but did not get around to checking the results until last week.She was shocked to find out from staff at her local post office in Swiss Cottage, north London, that she had won the multi-million pound jackpot, the Daily Mirror reports.The 72-year-old was however later advised to check the numbers one more time at the Tesco across the street.That’s when disaster hit, as she was told by staff at the supermarket that she didn’t have the winning numbers - and had won precisely nothing.
Margaret then called up the National Lottery who confirmed the news and her hopes of a retirement for her hard working 79-year-old husband vanished.
She told the Sun: "I was gutted. I'd never had one of these claiming tickets before and I've been doing the lotto since it started. "I thought it was because I had two lines on my EuroMillions ticket." The nan thought her winning line included the numbers she had chosen based on her grandson's date of birth.
But when she phoned the lottery line to check her numbers, they did not add up. When she asked why she had been handed the claiming ticket at the shop, she was told that this was probably meant for the person in front of her.
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