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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Princess Olive: Witness

Witness to this marriage "W. Pitt." "Anne Taylor." "J. Wilmot."

May 27, 1759.

April 17, 1759 "This is to Certify that the marriage o these parties (George, Prince of Wales, to Hannah Lightfoot) was duly solemnized this day, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, at their residence at Peckham, by myself. "J. Wilmot." "George Guelph." "Hannah Lightfoot."

Witness to the marriage of these parties,- "William Pitt." "Anne Taylor." "I hereby Certify that George, Prince of Wales, married Hannah Wheeler alias Lightfoot, April 17, 1759, but from finding the latter to be her right name I solemnized the union of the said parties a second time May the 27th, 1759, as the Certificate affixed to this paper will confirm. "J. Wilmot.

Witness (Torn) The case for the Crown was strongly supported.

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