Veronica (Vera) Duckworth, nee Burton
Played by: Elizabeth Dawn
First Appeared: 1979 (UK)
Date of Birth: 3 September 1937
Occupation: Retired, former Rovers landlord. Various jobs including machinist
at Baldwin‟s Casuals and café assistant
Relations: Wife of Jack Duckworth, mother of Terry. Grandmother of Paul
Clayton, Tommy Duckworth and Brad Armstrong
Love: Married to Jack. Was tempted to leave Jack for a former flame, had brief
affairs with Fred Gee and Lester Fontayne.
Storylines: Jack and Vera have had a long but tempestuous marriage, often
complicated by their troublesome son, Terry.
Vera confessed that Terry might not be Jack‟s child, but the result of an affair.
However Jack already knew of the affair and believed Terry to be his son
They took care of grandson Tommy following the death of his mother Lisa,
while Terry was in prison. However Terry did a deal with Lisa‟s parents the
Hortons and “sold” Tommy to them, leaving Vera devastated.
Later Terry was to abscond with money promised to him for donating a kidney
to son Paul. Vera donated her kidney instead and nearly died from
complications.
Vera once tricked pigeon-loving Jack into believing that he had been served
pigeon pie. And when he joined a dating scheme he was rumbled by Vera, who
arranged to meet him at the Rovers and surprised him (wearing a wig). After Jack
agreed to sell his body (after death) to an artist to raise money for Vera‟s
Christmas present, Vera intervened and the pair ended up being painted nude.
After meeting her father for the first time Vera became convinced that she was
descended from royalty. She also experimented with home improvement, by
insisting on installing stone-cladding on their house.
After Jack‟s brother left him £30,000 in his will Jack and Vera eventually took on
the role of Rovers landlords in 1995 (UK).
Because Jack had lied about his age when he met Vera it was revealed that they
were not legally married. They eventually officially tied the knot in Vegas. They
celebrated their golden anniversary in 2007 (UK).
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Currently Jack and Vera share their house with „adopted‟ son Tyrone and Molly,
and grandson Paul.
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