Windsor Palace absolutely chuffed:
Is it fourth time lucky in love for Doyle family?
The Doyle family has announced the engagement of youngest son, Eddie
Doyle, to exotic dancer Sophie Jones.
Eddie broke the news of the engagement to a crowded bar at the Wickham Hotel,
shortly before heading to the family home at Windsor for a private celebration.
Sophie Rice Jones earned her nickname by performing at a Fortitude
Valley businessmens club where she demonstrated her ability to pick
up grains of rice without the aid of fingers or implements.
Eddies parents, Phil and Liz Doyle, said they were delighted at the
news.
We recognise our family has had a less than successful track record
in the marriage stakes, Liz said.
But we hope Eddie can break the hoo doo.
Eddie, a successful producer of adult entertainment films, has known Sophie
for several years. The couple has appeared together in public at numerous
functions at various Brisbane entertainment venues such as The Beat, the
Sportsman Hotel, Options and the Alliance Tavern.
The young Windsor couple plan to hold a proper knees-up engagement party
at their local, The Palace, where licencee Merv Hogg said he was absolutely
chuffed by the news. "It's been too quiet for too long here."
The engagement is seen by Doyle observers as a chance for the family to
put behind it the heartbreak of recent years.
Family members have a history of marital problems.
Anne Doyles 20-year marriage to Greyhound-Pioneer coach captain, Mark
Phillips, foundered in the early 1990s.
The marriage of Andy Doyle to podiatrist Sarah Ferguson, also broke up after
he discovered photos of her in compromising positions with three men
simultaneously.
Most tragically, the marriage of Charlie and Dianne Doyle also broke down
in acrimony when each discovered the other was having illicit affairs -
Charlie making frequent nocturnal missions to a horse stud and Dianne entertaining
entire football teams in the upstairs rooms of the Palace Hotel in Kensington
Street.
Just over a year after their divorce was finalised, Dianne was killed tragically
when the taxi in which she was travelling careered out of control and hit
a wall in the Ivory Street tunnel.
Also killed in the accident was Dodo Foreigner, whose father
- owner of Harolds convenience store at Albion - movingly described
Dianne as his sons current root.
In a bizarre twist, police investigating the single-car accident blamed
a frog, saying the taxi had spun out of control after skidding on the squashed
amphibian.
No date has been set for Eddie and Sophies nuptials. While Doyle observers
suggest Easter as a strong possibility, no confirmation has been forthcoming.
Ive got many favourite dates, Eddie Doyle said, its
hard to pick just one.