The Magic Circle has readmitted a female magician expelled for tricking her way into the previously all-male institution by disguising herself as a man. “We’re proud to welcome back magician ...

Now, they want her back. Sophie Lloyd, an actress, was persuaded by her friend, a magician called Jenny Winstanley, in the late 1980s to apply to the Magic Circle. Winstanley didn’t think she ...

That performance won Mr. Lloyd acceptance into the society, The Magic Circle, in 1991. But after revealing a few months later that he was in fact a she, the performer was ousted from the club.

"Raymond Lloyd" was granted membership of the Magic Circle in 1991 A magician who tricked her way into the Magic Circle is finally being granted membership - 34 years after she was kicked out.

The Magic Circle is on the hunt for a long-lost member who was thrown out of the organisation in the 90s for disguising herself as a man. Before 1991, the Magic Circle, ...