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 ...

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 ...

Goodspeed Musicals will present three new shows--Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, The '60s Project and Meet John Doe--at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. The first will be presented as a ...

On April 3, 1817, a young woman appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in the rural village of Almondsbury, just a few miles north of Bristol in southwest England. Dressed in a shabby black gown and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday 3 April 1817 was a strange day indeed in the village of Almondsbury, near Bristol; the events that unfolded, quickly brought the village notoriety. An extraordinary woman, wearing a black ...

Soon she became restless and left Bristol, still pretending to be French, but using her own contrived language, begging at various places along the road to Gloucester. This disguise proved successful ...