London (Reuters) – Thirty years after expelling Sophie Lloyd Having disguised a man to join the then exclusively Male Magic Circle, the London Society of Professional and Amateur Magicians found it to restore her affiliation.
With 1,700 members around the world, including King Charles, society expelled Lloyd in 1991.
For months, Lloyd, with the help of a friend, pretended to be a man named Raymond who had a bad throat.
“We had a wig, a little similar to Hugh Grant’s hair,” Lloyd told journalists.
“We have made a device to make the face stronger and to have the jaw line.”
The club was not pleased when Lloyd revealed his fraud and chose to expel her-although at the same time, he opened the possibility of association for other women for the first time.
The Latin club’s motto translates as “not inclined to reveal secrets” and, in 1910, expelled his first president for revealing secrets behind magic tricks.
Until the 1990s, the club justified their prohibition on women by saying that they could not trust them to keep the magic tricks secret.
Society now has its first female president, Laura London, who wanted to contact Lloyd after hearing about her last year.
“I knew this was a story that needed to be told,” London said. “It not only captured the imagination of us magicians, but seems to have captured everyone’s imagination now.”
Initially hesitant to identify, Lloyd, now 60 and living in Spain, described her return as bittersweet, as the friend who helped her to perform the fraud had died.
“I thought… Jenny would have loved it and was very thrilled,” she said.
Magic Circle members changed a lot, she added.
“This was 30 years ago, people are so different (now) … In my day, everyone wore boots and suits, and now – I was looking at them, and they had tattoos, hoods, tennis, piercings.”
(Muvija M. report)
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