Gender Transition
Allowed out, she moved to London in 1950, at one point sharing a boarding house with then ships steward John Prescott. Having started cross-dressing, she moved to Paris in the 1950s and using the name April E became a Drag Queen. She joined the cast of the cabaret show at the Carousel Theatre, with the famous French entertainer Coccinelle.
At the age of 25 and having saved £3,000, Ashley had her seven hour long sex reassignment surgery on 12 May 1960, in Casablanca, Morocco under Dr Georges Burou. All her hair fell out and she was in a lot of pain, but the operation succeeded.
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