Olivia Serres [née Wilmot] [Princess Olive of Cumberland]

(1772-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Serres, Olivia Wilmot, 1772-1834 NRA: Serres Olivia (1772-1834) painter and writer DNB: Serres [née Wilmot], Olivia [alias Princess Olive of Cumberland] (1772-1835), royal impostor LBT ID: OlSerre1835 VIAF ID: 358898 LOC ID: n85178382	B/BAP: 1772-04-03 DIED: 1835-11-21
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Novelist and landscape painter to the prince of Wales; she forged documents identifying Junius and claimed to be the daughter of the Duke of Cumberland.
REFERENCES TO Olivia Serres [née Wilmot] [Princess Olive of Cumberland]: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n4 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 29 January 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 106 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ n4 Ch I: 1821