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 would get away with playing the role of a man, so she enlisted ...

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Sophie Lloyd convincingly played the role of Raymond Lloyd to gain access to the male-only Magic Circle over 30 years ago. View on euronews