Real-life ‘Lady’ - who married ‘Tramp’ she found going through bins outside her bookshop in 1970s - dies

A woman dubbed a real-life ‘Lady’ after marrying her very own ‘Tramp’ - who she found going through bins outside the bookshop she owned in the 1970s - has died. Joan Neininger and Ken Selway made headlines around the world after tying the knot in 2017.

The pair had met around 40 years earlier when she spotted him looking through rubbish outside her bookshop in Gloucester. Ken passed away in 2019, aged 92.

And now Joan - the other half of ‘the Lady and the Tramp’ - has also died. Her daughter Joy Walters said: “She achieved so much in her 94 years.

“She really was a remarkable and unique woman. There’s no two ways about it.” Joan and Ken became friends after their chance encounter in the late 1970s.

She had presumed he was staying in a B&B and just had nowhere to go out in