She Had No Money. No Title. No Name. She Stole £4 Million From Britain Anyway. скачать в хорошем качестве

She Had No Money. No Title. No Name. She Stole £4 Million From Britain Anyway.

In January 1909, a car was found hanging off a cliff on the North Wales coast.Smashed windscreen. Tyre tracks in the mud. No driver. No body.Just a hat in the grass.Britain assumed she was dead.She wasn't.Her name was Violet Charlesworth.She was 24 years old. She had no money, no title, no family fortune, and no connections.What she had was a story.And in Edwardian Britain — a story was worth everything.For nine years, Violet convinced doctors, bankers, lords and society gentlemen that she was the goddaughter of General Gordon of Khartoum — and was about to inherit £100,000 on her 25th birthday.She owned six motorcars at a time when fewer than 3,000 existed in the entire country.She wore diamond tiaras. She hired country houses across England, Scotland and Wales. She attended society balls. She was photographed. She was celebrated.And every single penny of it — was borrowed.When the deadline arrived and the fortune didn't — she staged her own death on a North Wales cliff road and vanished.Britain launched a nationwide manhunt.They found her on a Scottish island.At a ball.Still wearing the diamonds.This is the true story of Violet Charlesworth — the working class girl from Stafford who ran Britain's most audacious con, fooled an entire nation, faked her own death, and became the most wanted woman in Edwardian Britain.And the reason history forgot her is almost certainly because the men she swindled were too embarrassed to admit what happened.📌 CHAPTERS:00:00 — The Car on the Cliff Violet Charlesworth — Wikipedia 🔗 Nothing For Something: The Violet Charlesworth Story by Mark Bridgeman — available on Amazon 🔗 Findmypast — The Scandalous Edwardian Fake Heiress 🔗 Unseen Histories — The Mysterious Miss Charlesworth 🔗 Edwardian Promenade — Sin and Scandal: Violet Charlesworth 🔗 The Press and Journal — Did This Highland Con Artist Inspire Anna Delvey? 🔗 Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley — Episode 34: Violet Charlesworth📌 YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY:If you liked this video — watch our story of Britain's Child Migrants next. Link in the channel.📌 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL:Every week we uncover the stories that didn't make it into your history textbooks.The hidden stories. The buried stories. The stories someone decided you didn't need to know.Real people. Real events. Hidden history.Subscribe so you never miss one. #UntoldHistory #TrueHistory #HistoricalDocumentary #ForgottenHistory #DarkHistory #ModernHistory #HistoryDocumentary