Opal Stanley Whiteley was a brilliant, mostly insane, mystic and liar. She spent most of her life in a London mental hospital. Read the book Fabulous Opal Whiteley. She failed as a mystic since people remember her for her lies about her origins, rather then her nature writing.
Writing about Fairies was not original for her time, there was an international fasicination with the subject.
Now, Its impossible to know where her truth ended and her lies began, but she conned a great many people. She was a failed mystic but a great charmer , until middle-age left her high and dry in a mental hospital.
And she was a mulatto, most likely from black African slaves in the US. She lied about this and said she was French Royalty.
The Whitleys of the South, have been lying about their African heritage for long time.
What is upsetting is how her lies are now truths because no one wants to If she spent five years in India why is there not one picture from her travels?
If she was not of her family, why does she look identical to her sister, whom she claimed was no relation?
Not one witness, photo or ticket stub and people believe it. I am sure Opal, (who was in an alternate reality it appears) believed in her own fabrications. Yet, she was conscious enough to know how to charm people.
Many liars and most people are liars, are relentless in convincing others. If people are going to spend so much time on whether Opal was left by the Fairies , why not spend equal time on her racial origins and those of her relatives.
What bothers me is how everyone tiptoes around her racial background. Perhaps in her former life she was an Indian princess or French Royalty but in this life she was an American Mulatto.
Because of all this it is impossible to find any open information on Opal.
What happened to her sisters and brothers? Why not do a DNA test and find out? Why not do some real checking on the woman.
It appalls me how much information on Google is garbage and a pack of lies. So that's why I am writing this. check out her grandfather's picture in the book Fabulous Opal Whiteley.
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