''Christine Anne Perfect was born on 12 July 1943 in the village of Greenodd,[11] in the Furness area of Lancashire. She grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham.[12][13] Her father, Cyril Percy Absell Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham, and taught violin at St Philip's Grammar School, Birmingham. Perfect's mother, Beatrice Edith Maud (née Reece), was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Perfect's grandfather was an organist at Westminster Abbey.[14"