Opal Whiteley Emerges From Pan’s Labyrinth

Last night I watched a documentary about the author, Opal Whiteley, on PBS. I was amazed, for here is Ofelia from Pan’s Labyrinth that I have connected to my dear friend, Virginia Hambley, who is kin to the House of Bourbon. She has stayed in Castles in France. I asked her to marry me a week after she proposed to me, down on one knee. I glued the cote of arms of the House of Orleans on an old menu. The next day, she had no memory of this event where I presented her the Louisiana Territory.

“Princess Françoise asserted that she was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Henri d’Orléans and was taken to Oregon where she was adopted and given the name Opal Whiteley. The truth or otherwise of her claims to royal descent have always been the subject of fierce controversy, but she was consistent in maintaining them…