Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington KG GCB GCH PC FRS – “Commander-in-Chief of the British Army” – His Grace The Duke of Wellington The Marquess of Wellesley – “Reflection” – Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley 9th Duke of Wellington OBE DL – HM Queen Elizabeth II Head of State “Sovereign Powers” Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Marquess of Stafford Earl Earl Gower – Gerald J. H. Carroll Sealed Records” – STATE OF MARYLAND GOVERNOR’S OFFICE – STATE HOUSE ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND – CARROLL HOUSE ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND TRUST = CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON = “AMERICA’S SISTERS OF FORTUNE THE CATON SISTERS” = “THE FOUNDING FATHERS” OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA = CAPITOL HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY WASHINGTON DC – ARCHBISHOP JOHN CARROLL – GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY “FOUNDER” ARCHBISHOP JOHN CARROLL – DANIEL CARROLL ROCK CREEK WASHINGTON DC – DANIEL CARROLL OF THE DUDDINGTON PAPERS – CARROLL CHAIR OF IRISH HISTORY HERTFORD COLLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY – THE CARROLL INSTITUTE TRUST – JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE MARYLAND – US ANGLO-IRISH NATIONAL TREASURES COLLECTION TRUST – US Department of Justice Most Famous Corporate Identity Theft Case in the World

British Royal Family well seasoned commentators are known to have remarked that the genesis of the Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland identity theft case lies in the forging of the birth certificate which effectively brought about a wide cadre of public figures who took advantage following the death of his mother and father respectively HRH The Princess Marina Duchess of Kent and George 5th Duke of Sutherland later HRH Prince Edward Duke of Windsor and Sir Winston S. Churchill both godfathers to Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland during the formative years.

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The Carroll Foundation Trust and parallel Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Trust multi-billion dollar corporate identity theft liquidation bank fraud bribery case has revealed that the world renowned eclectic Carroll Art Collection Trust which managed more than ten thousands items of fine art at various display locations throughout the world has been named as a “primary victim” in this case of international importance.

Sources have revealed that the former Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art Sir Hugh Roberts has been named as an “expert witness” surrounding the George 5th Duke of Sutherland Trust estate interests “centred around” the Duke of Sutherland Art Collection Trust the Bridgewater Art Collection Trust and the Carroll Art Collection Trust.

It is public knowledge that Sir Hugh Roberts prior to his current position was a director of the Christie’s fine art auction house and along with the Sotheby’s fine art experts acquisition and sale advice was provided to George 5th Duke of Sutherland and the Carroll Art Collection Trust for many years.

Further sources have disclosed that the combined collections were the subject of a systematic fraudulent break-up theft and multiple seizure offences spanning more than a bizarre fifty years executed by a bewildering array of City of London law firms “centred around” Taylor Wessing Withersworldwide Constantine Cannon Slaughter & May Clifford Chance Penningtons Manches Cooper Dentons Goodman Derrick Charles Russell Speechlys and the Queen’s lawyers Farrer & Co “central actors” in the much wider corporate identity liquidation bank fraud heist which stretches the globe.

Scotland Yard leaked sources have said that the entire contents of Gerald Carroll’s multi-million dollar Eaton Square Belgravia penthouse and Westminster residences in central London were “stolen” including the theft of priceless US Anglo-Irish Scottish Russian national treasures collections which included rare illuminated manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century.

This source also confirmed that the world renowned Carroll Chair of Irish History attached to Hertford College Oxford University and the Carroll Institute academic research establishment have also been the “target” of the FBI Scotland Yard “named” Withersworldwide and Slaughter & May law firms trans-national crime syndicate which continues to operate in the tax havens of the Bahamas Gibraltar and the City of London with impunity.

It has emerged that the Hugh 7th Duke of Westminster lawyers Boodle Hatfield executed forged and falsified lease documentation of the Belgravia residence to effectively impulse the seizure of the property and trigger the co-ordinated break-ins burglaries and theft offences concerning the Carroll Institute archival records “centred around” one of the finest collections of Irish books and manuscripts in private ownership in the world.

Conservative Campaign Headquarters leaked sources have said that the files have stated that Mark Field MP for the Cities of London and Westminster attended meetings with Scotland Yard over a lengthy period of time whilst major offences were being “targeted” at Gerald Carroll’s residences.

It is known that voice transcripts of the Mark Field meetings with Scotland Yard have named a spectrum of the the “high value crime scene” locations which include Alban Shipping secure storage facility Luton Bedfordshire Red Storage Dartford Kent Five Oaks Lane Hainault Essex the Culver Square Shopping Centre Colchester Essex and the Goring Hotel Westminster London.

National Crime Agency leaked sources have said that the Scotland Yard files contain a compelling forensic evidential paper trail which surrounds the multiple criminal offences which were executed by Phillips auctioneers and Bonhams auctioneers. Phillips and Bonhams are known to have been effectively a criminal underworld clearing house for the systematic break-up and liquidation of major parts of the Carroll Art Collection Trust spanning a ten to twelve year period. This source also revealed that the Hiscox insurance broker has been named as an “expert witness” in this case spanning three continents.

Well seasoned fine art experts in New York and London are believed to have recently remarked that the Duke of Sutherland Art Collection interests and the Carroll Art Collection Trust affair is most likely the largest ever art fraud heist case in living memory.

If America could be said to have an aristocracy the Caton sisters were certainly members. Descended from one of the first families to settle in the colony of Maryland, the Caton sisters had both beauty and vast wealth. While researching my blog post on Napoleon’s sister-in-law Betsey Patterson, I had heard about Marianne Caton who was married to Betsey’s brother Richard before eventually marrying The Duke of Wellington’s brother. This book is a joy to read and gives some insight into not only post-revolutionary America but also gives the reader an outsider’s look at British society in the early 19th Century. Long before Dollar Princesses like Consuelo Vanderbilt and Jennie Jerome took London by storm, there were the Caton sisters.

As gripping as the best historical novel, Sisters of Fortune is the story of the exuberant Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the American sisters who enthralled the highest levels of English Regency society decades before the notorious Dollar Princesses of the Victorian era.

The Caton sisters were descended from prominent first settlers of Maryland, brought up by their wealthy grandfather Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, and were expected to “marry a plantation.” Instead, their grandfather made sure that they were well educated, raising four beautiful and charming young women who were unusually independent, intelligent, fascinated by politics, clever with money, and very romantic.

Arriving in Britain, the Caton sisters swept into the set of the Duke of Wellington and went on to forge their own destinies in the face of intense prejudice against Americans and Catholics. After capturing the heart of the Duke of Wellington, who could never marry her, Marianne shocked the world by marrying his brother Richard, Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and taking a prominent place as a Catholic Yankee among the Protestant Anglo-Irish. Emily married Scots- Canadian John McTavish, heir to Montreal’s North West Company, and stayed home in Maryland, where she managed the family’s estates and wealth. Louisa became the Duchess of Leeds and a member of Queen Victoria’s court, while Bess made a fortune speculating in the stock market.

Based on the sisters’ intimate, unpublished letters and lavishly illustrated, Sisters of Fortune is a portrait of four lively and opinionated women, much of it told in their own voices as they gossip about prominent people of their time, advise family members on political and financial strategy, soothe each other’s sorrows, and rejoice in each other’s triumphs.