Morris goes full circle by remarrying wife

Jan Morris, the historian who famously chronicled her sex-change operation in the book Conundrum, has remarried the wife she first wed as a man, when she/he was called James Morris. The civil partnership ceremony took place last month, nearly 60 years after Morris, the author of the highly successful Pax Britannica trilogy, which documented the rise and fall of the British Empire, married the then Elizabeth Tuckniss.

Morris, 81, made the announcement on BBC Radio 4's Bookclub programme on Tuesday as she discussed her life and works. She said: "We were married when I was young... and then this sex change thing - so-called - happened, so we naturally had to divorce. So we were divorced but we have always lived together anyway. So I wanted to round this thing off nicely." ·