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The Beggar Princess of Bristol

Oct 27, 202027 minEp 35Transcript available on Metacast
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Episode description

On April 3, 1817, a strange woman in a turban and ruffled black dress appeared in a small village to the north of Bristol. She would claim to be a Princess from a distant island, and for a summer, she would dazzle and charm an entire town of Englishmen and women all too ready to enjoy a spectacle of the "exotic."

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