PRINCESS CARABOO, Directed by Michael Austin; screenplay by Austin and John Wells; director of photography, Freddie Francis; music composed by Richard Hartley; production designer, ...

Princess Caraboo’s tale has fascinated people for two centuries. She’s inspired books, plays, and even a 1994 film starring Phoebe Cates. Her story taps into the allure of mystery, ...

Neale believed Caraboo was actually a former guest of hers named Mary Baker, a cobbler’s daughter from Witheridge, a village just 70 miles away. Princess Caraboo, Mrs. Neale said, was a hoax.

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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 ...

Bristol’s Princess Caraboo: Exposed Astonished at having a foreign princess in their house the Woralls began to advertise the fact. ‘Princess Caraboo’ delighted guests with her strange ...

Consider the half-Chinese, half-Malay Princess Caraboo, who in 1817 was kidnapped by pirates from her native island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean and sold from ship to ship around the globe until ...

In this episode of Lady Swindlers, Lucy meets Princess Caraboo, a woman abducted from palace gardens in Indonesia, traded by pirates and carried away to South West England in 1817.

The Princess Caraboo. 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, ...

She turned up in Gloucestershire in 1817, claiming to be Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu - saying she had been kidnapped by pirates before escaping and making her way to England. And the ...