Their first production was the musical Bless the Bride, which ran for two-and-a-half years, but two other joint ventures failed.
[2] At Wheeler's trial, the prosecuting counsel said that her love for Lord Vivian was overpowering and that she was jealous of any attention he showed to other women.
This love, the prosecution claimed, had led her to shoot him, on 30 July 1954, at a range of three inches, with intent to murder him at her country cottage at Potterne, Wiltshire.
[8] Giving evidence from his hospital bed in Devizes, Lord Vivian said he was shot while climbing in a window, having lost the key.
[11] According to English socialite Nicky Haslam, Wheeler and Lord Vivian got back together after she was released from prison, and "they lived together happily ever after".