アーサー・コーベット、第3代ローワラン男爵

コーベットは1945年から1962年までエレノア・メアリー・ボイルと結婚していた。^{[ 8 ]}彼らには4人の子供がいた。

• ジョン・ポルソン・キャメロン・コーベット、第4代ローワラン男爵（1947年3月8日生まれ）
• サラ・エリザベス・キャメロン・コーベット閣下（1949年4月5日生まれ）
• アン・メアリー・キャメロン・コーベット閣下（1953年9月3日生まれ）
• ロザリンド・エレノア・キャメロン・コーベット閣下（1958年1月2日生まれ）

At the beginning of his marriage to Eleanor, Corbett occasionally dressed in women's clothes a few times a year - something that he had desired to do from a younger age - with his wife's knowledge, and then later, secretly.^[8] He is recorded as saying: "I didn't like what I saw. You want the fantasy to appear right. It utterly failed to appear right in my eyes."^[8] From around 1948 he began to meet with people around London who shared his interest and began to seek out sexual encounters with some of them.^[8]

While still living with his wife and children, Corbett invited April Ashley to lunch at Le Caprice on 19 November 1960.^[8] At the time Ashley was a successful fashion model who had appeared in Vogue (photographed by David Bailey)^[9] and in the film The Road to Hong Kong, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.^[10][11] Corbett had got to know of Ashley through her work as a 'female impersonator' at Le Carrousel de Paris and made contact with her through a US acquaintance, Louise.^[8] When seeing Ashley for the first time, he recalls thinking: "This was so much more than I could ever hope to be. The reality was far greater than my fantasy [...] It far outstripped any fantasy for myself. I could never have contemplated it for myself".^[8] It was Corbett's interest in cross-dressing that had initially prompted his meeting with Ashley, but he soon developed a romantic interest in her and the they began to see each other regularly.^[8] Corbett is known to have introduced April to his family.^[8] In the three years leading up to their marriage, the couple did not engage in sex, only kissing.^[8] Ashley recounted that "[Corbett's] emotions swung about like a pendulum, from feeling jealous of her as a woman [...] to jealous feelings about other men who were attracted to her."^[8]

二人は1963年に結婚したが、結婚生活はすぐに破綻した。アシュリーの弁護士は1966年にコーベットに扶養料の支払いを求める書簡を送り、1967年にコーベットは結婚無効を求めて訴訟を起こした。コーベットは結婚時にアシュリーの過去を知っていたにもかかわらず、アシュリーが男性であるという理由で1970年に婚姻無効が認められた。^{[ 8 ] [ 10 ]}この主張は認められ、この訴訟は2004年の性別承認法まで先例となった。^{[ 9 ]}