Summary so far, according to Dianne:
They are still married. They met on a ship that departed Hampton, UK to Australia around 1970. She was 19, he was about 31 [if 1939 is his real birth year].
At the time, he was Willy Wouters and she did not know him by any other name. However, she later claims she always called him Ric, even before his name change to Frederick, so...
He claimed to be a press photographer and later in Australia, he was a wedding photographer. That is how Dianne thought he made a living.
Just prior to their Feb 1976 marriage, he changed his name to Frederick David de Hedervary. He claimed it was his biological family’s name. His father was a 'de Hedervary' and his mother a Coppenolle, first names unknown, and they died in WW2. He was adopted by his aunt Maria Coppenolle and Andre Wouters. When Casselden pressed her if it was Andre or another name such as Abdel [did he mean to say Abel?], she said no, it was definitely Andre.
When asked if RB was born in Belgium, she said “that’s what they said”. [Interesting, who are 'they', why not 'that's what he said'?]
Prior to arriving in Aust, he was in the Belgium army, was on a horse during a demonstration, got pulled off and beaten up real bad. He spent two years in hospital. He has scars [the shin scars and broken nose, I assume], and still has trouble walking today.
After marrying they went overseas to Europe. First Belgium where they lived with his family and he worked at the family furniture business that made and sold furniture. The family had about three of these businesses in Belgium. They also spent 3 years in Luxembourg where he set up another business and managed it on behalf of his family. Then they spent a few months in Boudreaux, France. Then back to Belgium and UK.
It was alleged he had an affair with a woman named Monique Cornelius. But Dianne did not know about her, Marion or GGB and JO.
Dianne also claims there was just one family car that she had most of the time as she had to drive kids around, so whenever RB went to have his affair with Marion in QLD, he went by train.
[The car thing is interesting because RB never seemed to have a car, not even when visiting JO whose house was secluded and at the top of a long driveway. I wondered if someone was dropping him off. When Marion 'retuned to Aus' and they did all the trips between Brisbane, Byron, Burleigh, Grafton, etc, how did they get around? Surely a car was used? IMO] [Bracket are my own notes.]
Excellent summary!
I dont believe the de Hedervary father story he told her though
That's good 
