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She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire , and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford , Venice , Trieste and New York City . Born male, James Morris had Sex Reassignment Surgery in Morocco in 1972 and adopted the name Jan. She has maintained her marriage to Elizabeth Tuckniss since 1949. They had five children, including the poet and musician Twm Morys , but one is now deceased. She served in World War II in British Intelligence and later wrote for '' The Times ''. She scored a notable scoop in 1953 when she accompanied the British expedition which was first to scale Mount Everest . Morris lives mostly in Wales , where her parents came from. She has received Honorary Doctorate s from the University Of Wales and the University Of Glamorgan and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature . She gracefully accepted her CBE in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours out of polite respect, but she is a Welsh nationalist republican at heart. BOOKS (Partial list)
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