| Paola Merrill | ||||||||||
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| Personal information | ||||||||||
| Born | December 5, 1997[1] Puerto Rico | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
| Occupation(s) | YouTuber, Author[2] | |||||||||
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channel | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2020–present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.45 million[3] | |||||||||
| Total views | 81 million[3] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 18 October 2023 | ||||||||||
Paola Merrill (born December 5, 1997) is an American YouTuber and author.[4] [5] She has over a million subscribers on her YouTube channel, TheCottageFairy.[6] She wrote The Cottage Fairy Companion.[7]
Merrill grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to the southern United States. She also lived in Cuba for a few years, as well as Ireland and Italy. Her father is a former Navy captain from Washington. Her mother is a native Puerto Rican who moved to New York at the age of 22 and later joined the Navy Reserve. Paola has two siblings: Rohan Merrill, her younger brother, and Liana, her older sister. Rohan is also a YouTuber with a channel called Letters From Ro, and Liana is a martial artist.[8]
In Dublin, Ireland, she took an English language course at the University College Dublin. She then relocated to the United States to pursue a literature degree at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.[9]
Merrill launched her YouTube channel, TheCottageFairy, on March 21, 2020.[10] She has 1.45 million subscribers on her YouTube channel as of October 2023.[11]
