Of these only one seemed plausible to many royalists, a German clockmaker by the name of Charles-Guillaume Naundorff, who had mysteriously appeared in Berlin during 1810, seemingly from nowhere. His claim was supported by proof that his age matched the birth date of the real dauphin but very little else could be established as he had no birth certificate and no proof of who his parents were. Some claimed him to be the son of Marie Antoinette and her lover Axel de Fersen, while others dismissed him as an impostor, and he never managed to establish a true claim to the French throne. Nonetheless, his death certificate, issued in Holland, named him as Louis-Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Normandy, the correct form of title known only in royal circles. His tomb in Holland bears the inscription; ‘H
