The story of Princess Caraboo, also known as the Cobbler’s Daughter, is one of England’s most famous cases of deception. In the early 19th century, a young woman appeared in a small English town ...

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is ...

Since “Princess Caraboo” is a comedy about a possible con game-a mysterious “Asian princess” who pops up in the British countryside of 1817 and is taken up by a circle of gullible bankers and ...

Astonished at having a foreign princess in their house the Woralls began to advertise the fact. ‘Princess Caraboo’ delighted guests with her strange language and eccentric manners. She was a skilled ...

Lucy Worsley and her all-female team of detectives travel back in time to meet con artists, hoaxers and crooks from across the world. Women living extraordinary lives in a world made for men. In this ...

Originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights and commissioned and developed by the Bristol Old Vic, the world premiere of a new British musical, ...

A guerrilla sculptor who has placed mystery sculptures around Bristol has struck again - with a poignant statue of one of the city's most celebrated working class women. The sculpture of Mary ...

4 Extra Debut. A beautiful woman arrives in a village claiming to be foreign royalty and is soon the talk of high society. Stars Clare Corbett. Show more The extraordinary and poignant tale of the ...

The true story of servant Mary Baker’s masquerade as the exotic Princess Caraboo makes an amusing footnote in English history. Phil Willmott’s engaging musical uses this story to explore themes of ...