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A TRIBUTE TO APRIL ASHLEY
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|Issue 75
In late December 2021, TS icon and pioneer died aged 86. Regarded as an icon by most of the TS community, she was made an MBE by the Queen in 2012.

1935-2021
The evidence suggests that the doctors in the gender-change clinic in Casablanca did a really good job on one George Jamieson when more than 60 years ago he cast off his merchant seaman male-persona medically and became April Ashley. She became a Vogue model, lover to the stars (including Omar Sharif, Peter O’Toole and Michael Hutchence), the wife of an aristocrat, and a friend of the Beatles, John Prescott, and many Oxford students.
April was able to ‘fool’ everybody - for a time. According to her biographer Douglas Thompson: she said of Salvador Dali - “He was excited by me”; Omar Sherif – “We were mad passionate lovers”; Bob Hope - “He didn’t crack one joke!”; Rex Harrison – “he just had sadness in his eyes”; Fellini wanted her in his next film; Paul McCartney – “He really had his eyes on me”; And Even Michael Hutchence – “He stared intently into my eyes”!... They all became part of our TS heroine’s bizarre fairy-tale life.
In 2005, Nigel Farndale interviewed her for the Daily Telegraph Magazine and he described how ‘she showed him round her small apartment in the south of France. Perhaps there was some melancholy at that time. A faded beauty living alone with a cat and fabulous memories? He sensed something of her appetite for drama, scandal and glamour - with a waft of Hermes perfume and a clink of coral jewellery. He noted a picture of Queen Elizabeth II on the wall ‘fittingly’ he thought, as April reminded him of a Ruritanian monarch whose personal grandeur could perhaps eclipse even the denizens of Versailles? He thought she played the
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