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Hmm. Ramanujan is the only one I can think of that loosely fits yours and DFP's stories, even though DFP's is a bit more mythical than yours. He's certainly the most famous candidate, and he did indeed live in poverty and academic waste due to his obsession with mathematics over anything else, but he wasn't a child when he came to England or any kind of royalty at any point.
I'm leaning towards slightly corrupted memories being at play here because I remembered him coming to the UK as a child and staying here. But the cab number story is main thing that stuck in my head, so I was able to see that the cab story guy is the same guy and my memory is just slightly faulty.