S he was born Keith David Hull in St Albans on May 25 1946 and grew up in nearby Harpenden. When Keith was seven, his parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses. In consequence he left school after taking just four O levels, his parents maintaining that further education was pointless as the end of the world was nigh. Aged 21 Keith Hull became a sales rep at Hoover, and married Marilyn, with whom he had twin sons and a daughter. Promoted to area manager, he became head of Saga DIY Retail and then sales and marketing director of the Hestair Group. As a child Keith had dreamed of being a girl and enjoyed dressing up in girls’ clothes, often playing the female roles in plays that he and his friends put on. When he grew up he tried to live a conventional life as a businessman, husband and father, but the strain began to tell. “I didn’t know what was wrong with me for a long time,” Stephanie Lloyd recalled. “I knew I wasn’t gay and when I met the girl I married and everything was all right I...