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PRINCESS CARABOO OF JAVASU

on BBC Radio 3

by Ruth Spalding
The account of a little known but successful imposture at the beginning of the last century; when Mary Willcocks , a cobbler's daughter from Witheridge in Devon, succeeded In passing herself off as a princess from an Island in the East Indies and even sat for her portrait in this role to Edward Bird , painter to Princess Charlotte.
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Ruth Spalding
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Mary Willcocks
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Edward Bird

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