QUEEN'S REALM

George Jamieson appeared to be a normal boy to his mother and school mates. Mrs. Ada Jamieson brought her son up as a boy and loved him as a boy in a household of six children-two girls and three boys besides "Georgie."

His mother recalls that "Georgie even had girl friends like other boys; but he was never rough and ready like the others. The family lived in a rough district of Liverpool. Yet Georgie was not robust. He was always spotlessly clean.

"When he left school he joined the Merchant Navy like his father and his brothers."

His first voyage was his last, however. "Something happened to him aboard ship. He was invalided out in America and left behind in California. He came back to EngJand on another ship as a passenger.

"We never heard the full story of what happened. He never talked about it."'

What had happened was that Georgie Jamieson for 27 years had never thought of himself as a boy but rather as a girl: "I realised all my ideas and thoughts were a woman's." So George saved his money until he had more than £2,000 for an operation which would physically make him into a woman. That was in 1960. She then changed her name to April Ashley and worked in a Paris night club for awhile.

So successful was the change both mentally and physically that Miss Ashley was able to become a fashion model. Said she at the height of her modelling career: "I am a woman. All my emotions are womanly. I even think of getting married, the change in me has been so complete.

"The only regret in my new life is that I can never have children.

But then, many women have been in that position, and I could adopt children as they have done."

April Ashley's wish may come true. In November, 1960, she met Mr. Arthur Corbett, son and heir of former Chief Scout Lord Rowallan, the Governor of Tasmania. Mr. Corbett, who is the owner of the night club, Jacaranda, in Spain, has said that he hopes to marry April. The only trouble is that Mr. Corbett is already married and has four children a son, John, now aged 15, who is at Eton, Sarah 13, Anne, and Rosalind 4. But in March of this year Mrs. Corbett was granted a decree on the grounds of his adultery. Shortly thereafter, Lord Rowallan, his father, let it be known that he disapproved of his son's actions. So has the London press.

But Arthur Corbett is philosophical: "I have left most of my private fortune to my children my wife has their custody-and I hope that my father will respect my wishes and leave whatever inheritance would be mine to my son instead.

"I think April is a very wonderful person and I hope that in due course my family and closest friends back in London will accept her.

"Eventually I shall become Lord Rowallan and in the event of my marrying April-and I hope and pray I do she will become Lady Rowallan. All I can dare hope is that all will go well."

But latest news is that April, having changed her sex, has now changed her mind about marrying Corbett a woman's prerogative.

MEANWHILE BACK IN BOSNIA...

Mr. and Mrs. Jupi had three children all girls. They desperately wanted a boy. And when the

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