The moving love story between writer Jan Morris and her ex-wife, who she re-married after her sex change
By GEOFFREY LEVY FOR THE DAILY MAIL UPDATED: 21:03 GMT, 4 June 2008
The ceremony binding them in a civil partnership was simple and brief, with no fuss or nuptial excitement.
The two ladies who made their statements of commitment and signed the register in their local council offices were far from young - one was 84, the other 81.
The toast to their future happiness was performed with cups of tea. It signalled the final inspiring chapter in an extraordinary and rather beautiful love story that not even Hollywood could have dreamed up.
The younger of the women was Jan Morris, the distinguished author who, until medical intervention in the early Seventies, was struggling to live as James Morris.
The older one, Elizabeth, was the girl who the earlier James had fallen desperately in love with and married in 1949 when both were in their 20s.
Some 36 years ago, after surgery and hormone treatment had helped turn James into Jan, they were divorced.
'We didn't want to divorce - we loved each other very much - but we were told we had to because two women cannot be man and wife,' said Elizabeth yesterday.
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