'Life is wizard for witches', Manchester Evening News, 19 September 1969

Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 September 1969, page 3. A diary item catching up with Alex Sanders, now styled Grand Prior of the Ordine della Luna in Constantinople, an order whose grand master is given as Prince Petros Palaeologus. Sanders, 43, Maxine, 22, and their 19-month-old daughter Maya are living in London, with a flat in Rome and a weekend cottage in Northamptonshire. The paper lists what is coming: television appearances, two films on witchcraft due that autumn, June Johns's biography King of the Witches the following month, and work as technical adviser and art consultant on a further film. Of Maya he says: 'She will make up her mind at the age of 18 whether or not to become a witch. Until then she will receive a convent education, probably in France, like her mother.' The archive holds the order's letterhead and a letter from Prince Petros Palaeologus to Sanders. How to cite: 'Life is wizard for witches', Manchester Evening News, 19 September 1969, p. 3. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

Life is wizard for witches Life seems pretty wizard at the moment for Alex Sanders, the Grand Prior of the Ordine della Luna in Constantinople. He is the witch who at one time and another caused all that brouhaha in Manchester and Alderley Edge, Cheshire, where his covens met at dead of the night to dance naked at initiation ceremonies. Nowadays 43-year-old Mr Sanders, his high priestess wife Maxine, aged 22, and their 19-month-old daughter, Maya, are happy and well and living in London. They also have a flat in Rome and a weekend cottage in Northamptonshire. Constantinople ? That is just part of the name of their order, whose grand master is someone called Prince Petros Palaeologus. It seems to be a case of bubble, bubble, some toil, and not too much trouble for the Sanders family, who are reaping substantial benefits from the modern communications media. * * * They have appeared on TV, have two films on witchcraft being released this autumn, and next month will see the release of June Johns's biography, “King of Witches (The World of Alex Sanders).” In October he will also begin work as technical advisor and art consultant on a film with a psychological plot, the same company is negotiating with him to help with a series of documentaries on East African witchcraft customs. Meanwhile, what plans does he have for little Maya? “She will make up her mind at the age of 18 whether or not to become a witch,” he says, “Until then she will receive a convent education, probably in France, like her mother.”