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  1. Gracie met her third husband, Boris Alperovici, when he came to La Canzone to fix her radio. Gracie knew Boris as an odd-job man around the house, and when asked why she didn’t speak to him, she said that she thought he wouldn’t understand English -‘ in fact, he speaks English better than I do!’

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  2. On 18 February 1952 in Capri, Fields married Boris Alperovici (d.1983), a Romanian radio repairman. She claimed that he was the love of her life, and that she couldn't wait to propose to him. She proposed on Christmas Day in front of friends and family.

  3. Sep 28, 1979 · She spent most of her time, however, at her villa on island resort in the Bay of Naples with Boris Alperovici, her third husband, who survives.

  4. Aug 27, 2009 · After two years she had married again, this time to Boris Alperovici, a native of Bessarabia (formerly a part of Romania, integrated into the Soviet Union).

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  5. Her new husband was Boris Alperovici, a longtime resident of Capri. Although the British newspapers labeled him "a humble electrician" with a radio shop, he was in fact an inventor and, unlike his new wife, an accepted member of aristocratic Capri society.

  6. Jul 6, 1983 · ISLE OF CAPRI, Italy -- Boris Alperovici, widower of the late British music hall singer Gracie Fields, died at his home in Capri Wednesday, friends reported. He was 79. The Romanian-born...

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  8. Aug 26, 2022 · Gracie Fields with her husband Boris Alperovici outside the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool . She was in town to switch on the 1964 Illuminations. Gracie made several more visits in revues that were...

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