Hannah Lightfoot
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I am Hannah Lightfoot, I was a Quaker in Westminster. I married Isaac Axford in December 1753 but, before the end of the following year, had disappeared. Later gossip, originally in amusement and ridicule, first noted in print in 1770, but much embroidered in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries linked my name, although some eight years his senior, with the extremely shy fifteen-year-old Prince George. Prince George became King George III in 1760 and was known to admire the simplicity of the Quakers. After George's death, rumours circulated that he had engineered my abduction, married and had children by me. However, no contemporary source connecting the Prince and I have ever been found.