Show Notes
A mysterious woman walks into a small English village speaking a language nobody understands.
She says her name is Princess Caraboo: royalty from a faraway island, kidnapped by pirates and shipwrecked near Bristol.
Soon, doctors, newspapers, and wealthy hosts are all drawn into her story.
But the bigger the legend grows, the harder it becomes to know who is fooling whom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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