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    Anne Hamilton-Byrne

    Australian cult leader and yoga teacher (1921–2019)

    Anne Hamilton-Byrne (30 December 1921 – 13 June 2019) was an Australian cult leader and yoga teacher.[1][2]

    Biography

    Born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards on December 30, 1921 in Sale, Victoria, Australia, she was the eldest of seven children in a working-class family.[3] Her father, Ralph, a World War I veteran, was often absent, and her mother, Florence (née Hoile), a British-born woman who claimed to communicate with the dead, was intermittently hospitalized for mental health issues.[3] Evelyn spent part of her childhood in an orphanage.[3]

    In 1941, she married Lionel Harris and had one biological child, Judith, who later sued her mother and settled in Britain before passing away.[3] Following Lionel Harris's death in a car accident in 1955, Evelyn experienced grief, which she attributed to a spiritual awakening.[3] She changed her