Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

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8 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

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The Duke of Richmond The points which must be settled before we can solve the mystery of the Bisley Boy are: (1) Was there such an episode…

The Solution: Richmond

The various important posts conferred on the young Duke of Richmond were evidently preparations for the highest post of all, which in…

The Solution: Boleyn

There he remained till September, 1533. On his return to England he married by special dispensation, on 25 November, 1533, Mary Howard…

The Solution: Elizabeth

And Grafton thus speaks under date 7 September 1533 of Elizabeth's birth: "The Queen was delivered of a fayre Lady." Now Anne Boleyn is…

The Solution: Henry

It is only common sense to expect, if the paternal element was so strong in Henry as to reproduce in offspring his own colour, that had the…

The Solution: Bisley

In one way there is a duty which the reader must not shirk, if only on his own account: not to refuse to accept facts without due…

The Solution: Cagliostro

INDEX Alcacer-el-Kebir, battle of, 20- Cagliostro, career of, 80-94. 22, 25.

The Solution: Hoax

Cat Hoax, The, 255.

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