The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Snooker player’s ex-wife takes pot luck at opening new shop
Snooker legend Stephen Hendry’s ex-wife said she had to sell wedding china and jewellery to set up a fashion shop in Perthshire.
Mandy Hendry opened Ruby’s, a fashion boutique in Auchterarder, with friends in November. She said she had to sell various personal items, including her horse, Ruby, to embark on a career of her own.
The pair split up in 2013 amid claims Hendry, a seven times snooker world champion, had been dating Lauren Thundow, a former children’s entertainer. The couple now live in England.
Mrs Hendry has previously stated she was “heartbroken” when her former husband left the marital home near Auchterarder. But her friends are claiming she has focused on setting up the fashion shop in the Perthshire town, and say she is “loving her life” now.
“Mandy has gone through a really tough time – awful in fact,” one friend told the Daily Record.
“But she’s loving her life now, making her own way.”
She continued: “She’s worked hard to pick herself up for her sons, whom she loves to bits, and she’s really proud of what she’s achieved. Nothing has been handed to her on a plate to make this happen.
“It frustrates her that people might think differently. She’s done it all by herself and that feels really good.”
Mandy and Stephen Hendry met as teenagers in 1984, when they were attending a snooker competition at a holiday camp. They married in Perthshire in 1995.