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Criminal

The Princess

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

One night in 1817, a woman appeared in the village of Almondsbury, in England. No one could figure out who she was. But everyone wanted to solve the mystery. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Well, once upon a time, one might begin that way, a strange woman turned up in a cottage in a village called

0:42.1

Almansbury, which is several miles outside of the city of Bristol,

0:45.6

to a very bustling Port City at the time.

0:48.8

This is Professor Meg Russett.

0:50.8

The date is April 3rd, 1817, and she seemed to be speaking a language that no one around her understood.

1:01.0

The woman looked to be about 25 years old with pale skin and dark

1:05.3

hair. She was wearing a black dress with a red and black cotton shawl wrapped around her

1:10.8

shoulders and another shawl wrapped around her head. People noticed

1:16.0

that her hands were very smooth like she hadn't been using them for work. She was

1:21.2

carrying almost nothing, a small bar of soap and a few English coins.

1:27.0

She was first taken to what was called the overseer of the poor.

1:32.0

The overseer offered her money, but the woman wouldn't take it. of the

1:33.6

poor. The overseer offered her money, but the woman wouldn't take it. She made it clear

1:36.9

that she was very tired and needed a place to sleep. Eventually she was brought before the local magistrate, Mr. Worrell, who was a very well-to-do landowner in the village.

1:52.0

And he couldn't understand that. landowner in the village.

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