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Oct 11, 2019 · Charles Faa Blythe, now 73, was persuaded to take the crown. According to an interview by the photographer Alasdair Alpin MacGregor in 1935 with a resident of Yetholm called Robert Christie, there were ‘ten thousand folk there’ and ‘two hundred cuddies (horses)’.
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Feb 10, 2024 · One character who played a crucial role in the village’s history is William “Hard Apple” Blyth, a smuggler who was also the village grocer and a warden at the parish church.
Sep 12, 2018 · A Second Gypsy Dynasty. A second Gypsy royal lineage existed in Scotland, although this one was not acknowledged by the King. Billy Marshall is said to have lived for 120 years and had always claimed to be the "King of the Gypsies.”.
Jun 1, 2015 · In 2011, the Daily Mail claimed that Ladislav Stokja was crowned as Gypsy King of England. But the true successor to the Scottish Faa Blythe crown is more difficult to pinpoint.
The most notorious figure, though was William Blyth. Blyth — alias King of the Smugglers or Hard Apple — was village grocer and churchwarden. Evidently he found it difficult to separate the two roles, since he often wrapped groceries in pages torn from the parish record books.
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Tradition states that Captain William Bennett of Grubbet, laird of Kirk Yetholm, a politician and soldier who took up a position in King William II and III’s army during the Nine Years’ War, was saved by a Gypsy named Young at the crucial siege of Namur in 1695. Early in the 19th century, Blackwood’s Magazine recorded this episode by stating
