The Mysterious Princess Who Fooled The Royal Family During The 19th Century - Princess Caraboo

when a mysterious young woman arrived in the small English Village of almondbury on the night of April 1817 the locals didn't know what to make of her clearly exotic not from the area and speaking in a foreign tongue no one could understand the woman was clearly distraught and confused why was she there and where did she come from at first the locals weren't sure how to handle the mysterious woman they immediately reached out to the parish overseer but he too was unsure how to deal with the strange lady therefore he approached the manor house in NL Park which was the home to Samuel and Elizabeth warl both Americans Samuel was a magistrate and had the authority to decide what to do when the warl went to meet the young woman they were taken aback by her unique beauty standing at around 5'2 she had dark eyes and hair she wore a black gown with a shawl around her head as well as a red shawl that cascaded around her shoulders who could this stunning woman be Samuel called upon his brother who knew most Middle Eastern languages with the hopes he'd be able to communicate with her however he could not make out the dialect in which she spoke realizing they were making no progress Samuel and his wife sent the woman to the Village Inn where she could get a hot meal and a place to sleep for the night in the early hours of the morning Elizabeth warl went to visit the young woman she found her looking over Illustrated travel books and seemed most most interested in one with pictures of China after some time the woman was able to communicate through signs and told the locals her name was Caribou Caribou was taken to Bristol a nearby Port City where she was questioned by City officials and the mayor they came to the conclusion she as simply a beggar therefore she was committed to St Peter's Hospital for vagrant however she wouldn't stay there long after being incarcerated Caribou met met a Portuguese man named Manuel NS who said he could understand language according to NS Caribou was from an island called Javas Su in the East Indies after being abducted by Pirates she managed to escape by diving overboard in the Bristol Channel and swimming to shore oh and she was also of Royal Blood making her princess Caribou realizing the horrific mistake that had been made Samuel and Elizabeth warl rescued her from the home for vagrants and brought her back to amsbury despite no one having heard of Javas Su they took her back to NL Park where she enjoyed much better accommodations princess caribou's story was further given credibility by a man who had said he traveled the East Indies thoroughly while communicating with the princess via sign language he was able to expand on her extraordinary story according to Caribou her father had been killed in a battle with invading Pirates after being kidnapped by a pirate Captain known as cheing they sailed for 11 weeks before Caribou had managed to escape it almost seems too wild to be true right Caribou told the villagers that she spent 6 weeks wandering the byways of gloustershire before stumbling on almondberry she also mentioned she had obtained her strange clothes from a woman she had met along the way trading her royal silk dress for something more common the good people of the village were completely enamored with Caribou at this point in order to continue the people's interest the princess wrote down the letters of her language as word of the Exotic princess began to spread a local newspaper picked up the story Dr Wilkinson from the city of bath wrote an article about the princess which was published by the Bristol Journal featuring an illustrated portrait of the princess this article would be the beginning of her undoing the portrait published in the Bristol Journal caught the eye of Mrs Neil A Boarding House house landlord who recognized Caribou as Mary Wilcox Mary was the daughter of a cobbler who was from the village of withd in devenshire which was only 65 mil from almondbury her father had always believed something wasn't completely right with his daughter she left her home at the age of 19 before taking a job as a nursemaid in Clapham a suburb of London from there she would eventually get pregnant and have a baby that she ended up giving up before joining a group of traveling gypsies Samuel and Elizabeth warl had become the laughing stock of England for being so gullible as for Mary Wilcox she decided to sail to Philadelphia to find Fame and Fortune as a performer with the desire to be rid of the woman the generous and kind Elizabeth paid for her fair to America using her princess Caribou Persona Mary tried to perform on the stage sadly it wasn't successful and she returned to England in 1824 after all the lies and deceit Karma finally caught up with Mary Wilcox and she spent the rest of her life selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary