Jan Morris enters civil union with her former wife

Jan Morris, the writer who chronicled her sex-change operation in Conundrum, has had a civil union with the woman she first married nearly 60 years ago when she was a man.

Ms Morris and Elizabeth Tuckniss divorced in 1972, but continued to live together in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, North Wales. The civil ceremony took place last month at Pwllheli council office. One other couple witnessed them sign their names and invited them for tea at their house later.

Ms Morris told BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub: “We were married when I was young and (she) took the family name and then this sex-change, so-called, happened, so we naturally had to divorce. So we divorced, but we always lived together, anyway. It did not make any difference to me. We still had our family. We just carried on. I made my marriage vows 59 years ago and still have them.”

She said that she used to describe Ms Tuckniss as her sister-in-law. Her partner “always knew” of her belief that she should have been born female.

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