Babbling in a strange tongue, an exotically dressed girl appeared in the village of Almondsbury in 1817. This afternoon's play, based on a true story, tells the tale of this supposed princess from ...

Hear Lucy Worsley explain who Princess Caraboo was. Sitting in a city's burial ground is a statue of a famous Victorian swindler who is now being celebrated as a working class icon. The sculpture ...

Princess Caraboo arrived in Bristol in the 19th century…but she wasn’t what she seemed. On Lucy Worsley’s new series ‘The Lady Swindlers’ she looks in to who Princess Caraboo was and how ...

Or take Mary Baker, a servant from Devon and possibly a prostitute who made a name and a nest for herself as an oriental ...

The sculpture of Mary Willcocks has its own account on X, with lots of people still retelling the story of how a cobbler's daughter convinced Bristol's elite she was Princess Caraboo from a far ...