Maud Grimes (née Michaelson) was intent on destroying the relationship between her daughter Maureen and Reg Holdsworth. She succeeded in 1968 but was powerless to stop their courtship and marriage in 1995. For a while Maud was engaged to be married to Percy Sugden but he broke off the engagement when he discovered that Maud had an affair during World War II with Danny Kennedy, an American soldier, and that Maureen was the resulting child of that relationship. She proposed to Percy again, but he turned her down thinking that she was joking.