Valerie Arkell-Smith - Crossdressing

Crossdressing

In Sussex, Arkell-Smith met Elfrida Hayward. By then, Arkell-Smith had begun to dress as a man. She left her husband in 1923 and began a relationship with Hayward. Hayward believed Arkell-Smith was a man. The couple began living at the Grand Hotel, in Brighton. By then, Valerie Arkell-Smith had begun to use the name Sir Victor Barker. On 14 November, Arkell-Smith and Haward married, in what was ultimately exposed as an illegal marriage, since Arkell-Smith was a woman.