She's a Lady!

I first became a Lady in 1961.

- Lady Antonia Fraser

By which I do not mean that I underwent some gender-transferral process at the time. A recent questionnaire on some official matter took me by surprise by beginning, ‘Are you still the gender you were born into?’ I was tempted to reply that I didn’t remember my birth that clearly…

In any case, the answer is yes: I was born female. And I became a Lady when my father succeeded my childless uncle to the Earldom of Longford in 1961. I was 30. Now an Earl’s daughter, I had the right to be styled Lady plus Christian name.