Talk:Princess Caraboo

Caption Is Wrong?

Whatever that graphic is, it's clearly not a "sketch". It's a highly detailed finished drawing of some kind or even a print or lithograph. -- 220.233.162.219, 19:56, 20 March 2006

Why could the Portuguese sailor "understand" her?

Am I the only one who's curious about this point? Was he in on the scam? Is there any credible information out there about this?--El benito 16:08, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Yup, very inconsistent. I'm curious, too; very strange.--Doktor Who 14:40, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed - maybe he knew the gypsy words? but it seems more likely he was in on the scam... --

Polyphonickat 20:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Mrs. Neale?

The Worralls brought Caraboo back to their home. For the next ten weeks, this representative of exotic royalty was a favourite of the local dignitaries. She used a bow and arrow, fenced, swam naked and prayed to God, whom she termed Allah Tallah. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers. A certain Mrs. Neale recognised her from the picture in the Bristol Journal and informed her hosts.

I don't follow the last line of this paragraph... What did Mrs. Neale inform her host about?? That her picture was in the paper? Just don't see the importance of it and think it needs either more clarity and information or to be removed.

Polyphonickat 20:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Mrs Neale recognized the girl and informed her host that the so-called princess in their care was actually Mary Baker, the cobbler's daughter. I don't see what's confusing there.

What IS confusing, though, is the parenthetical "née Willcocks" and the later reference to REmarrying. So was she married this entire time she was wandering around?!

The line "She had been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay" makes little sense if some guy was back home saying "Where's my wife?!".

66.3.106.2 (talk) 11:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

If she had no place to stay, we can infer the boarding house keeper must have refused Caraboo accommodation at least once. Was the boarding house in Bristol or Kent, or somewhere else? Was Worrall himself from Bristol? Have to read the book to find out. --Lmstearn (talk) 21:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Not buried in Hebron Road

Tony Robinson’s TV show “The Museum of Us” has just visited the Bristol Museum and debunked the idea that the princess (Mary Baker) was buried in the Hebron Road cemetery. 2A00:23C6:680B:D101:C1EB:D18:443:8E3F (talk) 20:57, 17 October 2022 (UTC)