Dr. Maddy Pelling

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · The Fake Princess Who Fooled Georgian England · 5 May 2026 podcast

And as the lie gets bigger and bigger and becomes more ridiculous and more people get involved and more people hear about it, at some point somebody's going to call it out, especially in a place close to Bristol where there really are people who have travelled the world and been to the East Indies, spent time there.

interacted with the locals, spoken the language, learned the language.

Something is going to click at some point and people are going to call this out.

So while Dr. Wilkinson is off making his name in the big smoke, thinking he's going to become the most famous explorer of the 19th century, two people come out of the woodwork in Armansbury.

One is a Wheelwright's son.

And I love this element of the story, that it's the lowliest people in this society who come forward and show the truth and show just how...

credulous and foolish and ignorant the ruling classes are in this moment.

So the Wheelwright's son comes forward and he says, I recognise in the local paper the description of the young lady who's staying with you, and I remember her from the previous summer.

She walked past...

my workshop on the road and she spoke English to me and I offered her some water and we had a whole chat and I thought she was incredibly beautiful and I remember blushing at the time, but she's not a foreign princess, she's a vagrant.

Now, another person who comes forward to corroborate this is a Mrs. Neal, who is a landlady in Bristol near the docks.

And she says, this young woman stayed with me last summer.

Again, she's English.

She legged it without paying her bill and left all of her belongings in my lodging house.

And I still have them.

And you know, at this point, Caribou, as she's known, has been painted by society portraitists.

There's an account of her life being written.

This is an absolute disaster for the Worrells.

They're like, oh shit, this is embarrassing.

And the whole thing falls apart and the Worrells are humiliated.

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