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 ...

Sitting in a city's burial ground is a statue of a famous Victorian swindler who is now being celebrated as a working class icon. The sculpture of Mary Willcocks has its own account on X, with lots of ...

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 ...

Originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights and commissioned and developed by the Bristol Old Vic, the world premiere of a new British musical, ...

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 ...

Princess Caraboo is a strong reminder of the tremendous influence of public television. With its excellent scripting, masterful direction and high level of acting, the first half of the film resembles ...

Kevin Kline works up a comic Greek accent and a fussy air as he performs a labor of love for his own princess bride, Phoebe Cates, in “Princess Caraboo.” But despite some humorous moments from America ...

Princess Caraboo is a charming romantic fable. It comes out of nowhere in this much-hyped movie season, yet it adheres to the verities of any good film – strengths in acting, plot and the ability to ...

The Worralls sent the girl, in the company of two of their servants, to stay the night in the village. At the inn she noticed a print of a pineapple on the wall and pointed to it excitedly, ...

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 ...