Maxine Sanders

Maxine Sanders (born Arline Maxine Morris on 30 December 1946 in Cheshire) She is a prominent priestess in the world of modern Witchcraft /Wicca/Craft and co-founder with her late husband, Alex Sanders (Wiccan)|Alex Sanders]], of the Alexandrian tradition of Witchcraft.

Raised a Roman Catholic, Maxine was educated at St.Joseph’s Convent School in Manchester. In 1964, while a student at Loreburn secretarial college, she was initiated into Alex’s coven. Alex Sanders. Maxine and Alex were handfasted the next year. In 1968 the couple married in a civil ceremony in Kensington London. They lived in a basement flat in Notting Hill Gate. Alex and Maxine had two children Maya and Victor. Maya was born in 1967. Victor was born in 1972. The Sanders became household names during the late sixties and early seventies. Alex and Maxine ran a traning coven, now known as 'The London Coven', which was the first training coven in modern Witchcraft. Apart from the massive media coverage they recorded the record 'A Witch is Born', it was released in 1970 and has recently been edited and re released in cd form. The Sanders’ coven also appeared in 'Legend of the Witches' (1970), 'Witchcraft ’70' (1970) and 'Secret Rites' (1971) and numerous documentaries. A biography of Alex appeared in 1969 (King of the Witches, by June Johns); biographies of Maxine appeared in 1976 (Maxine: The Witch Queen) and 1977 (The Ecstatic Mother, by Richard Deutch). More recently ("Firechild, by Maxine")

After Maxine and Alex separated, Maxine remained in the London flat where, for many years, she ran her coven ("The Temple of the Mother") which continued to teach the art of Witchcraft and other magical systems including Hermetics and the Angelic system. Members of the coven also trained in the art of healing and became well respected for their healing and charitable work in the community. Maxine and Alex remained in close contact until Alex's death in 1988. Shortly before his death he named Maxine as his next of kin. In 2000 Maxine moved to Snowdonia until 2010 when she returned to London's famous Abbey Road. Today, Maxine, with other Elders, teach in the Coven of the Stag King, an Alexandrian coven based in London. Regardless of rumour and assumption the coven of the Stag king is purely Alexandrian in its practice. They hold monthly soiree's in London where The Alexandrian Tradition is the main topic of conversation. Throughout the year Maxine returns to her cottage in Snowdonia where the Old Witches work next to the river Tiegl that roars by the stone circle in Maxine's garden″. Maxine still travels extensively to meet and answer the questions of the curious.


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