Ye olde Port royle Blue plaque trail
the Bermuda Historical society

No: 15 Church Street Port Royal

Former home of:

Charlotte de Berry

The earliest known reference to Charlotte de Berry comes from publisher Edward Lloyd's 1836 “penny dreadful” called History of the Pirates. Lloyd was known for producing other similar compilations of shocking and gory tales, often plagiarized. There's no evidence for de Berry's existence in 17th-century sources, though many elements of her story have parallels in other literature popular in Lloyd's day by authors such as Marryat, Voltaire, and Bulwer-Lytton. Re-tellings of de Berry's tale after 1836 have almost always mirrored Lloyd's original, sometimes with slight variations