A woman who was kicked out of the Magic Circle for pretending to be a man has been allowed back into the prestigious society ...

Sophie Lloyd is being honoured by the organisation at a ceremony on Thursday night, after being thrown out 30 years ago.

Sophie Lloyd, pretending to be ‘Raymond Lloyd’, allowed to join elite society in 1991 – but later that year she revealed disguise when women started to be granted membership, only to then be expelled ...

Sophie Lloyd, barred from Britain's Magic Circle for being a woman, ingeniously disguised herself as "Raymond" in 1991. For ...

Sophie Lloyd will be welcomed back to the Magic Circle. She was expelled for posing as a man in 1991. Laura London, the ...

Sophie Lloyd, who disguised herself as a man in 1991 to join the magicians' association, is receiving official membership ...

Over 30 years after being unceremoniously kicked out, the Magic Circle has tracked down Sophie Lloyd to apologise and reinstate her membership. But how did she fool the famous society?

Sophie Lloyd, who disguised herself as a man in 1991 to join the magicians' association, is receiving official membership ...

Sophie Lloyd disguised herself as a man to join the Magic Circle in 1991, when female magicians were not allowed membership.

A woman kicked out of the UK's Magic Circle for pretending to be a man is being let back into the organisation after more than 30 years.

Jenny Winstanley, from Bacton, was behind a trick which enabled magician Sophie Lloyd to infiltrate the male only Magic Circle in 1991 dressed as a young man. However their illusion failed and the ...

Sophie Lloyd performed her greatest trick before the Magic Circle: she vanished. It wasn’t to a roar of applause, however – ...