Born Elizabeth Forbes in 1912, he lived as a boy/man and had the gender on his birth certificate altered in order to marry. When his older brother died in 1965, his cousin contested Ewan’s inheritance of the Baronetcy on the grounds that it could only be inherited by a male. The court case was kept secret.
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes
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Young Mungo
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