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Description: | This silk veil and beaded coronet headdress was made especially for Georgina Turtle. It came from Harrods department store in London. She smiled beneath it during her glamorous society wedding at St Margaret's Church in Westminster on 13 October 1962. Georgina's wedding day was a fairytale ending to a traumatic period in her life. She was wrongly brought up as a boy and had lived unhappily as a man. It was not until 1955 that a doctor confirmed that 32 year old George was dominantly female. She had corrective surgery in January 1957 and became Georgina. Georgina was the first woman to marry legally in an English church following an official correction of sex. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1962 | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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