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kimbutgar

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5. There was a biracial royal named Queen Charlotte in the 1800's

Reply to tymorial (Reply #3)

Mon May 6, 2019, 12:25 PM

May 2019

Princess Sophie Charlotte was born on this date in 1744. She was the second Black Queen of England.

Charlotte was the eighth child of the Prince of Mirow, Germany, Charles Louis Frederick, and his wife, Elisabeth Albertina of Saxe-Hildburghausen. In 1752, when she was eight years old, Sophie Charlotte's father died. As princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sophie Charlotte was descended directly from an African branch of the Portuguese Royal House, Margarita de Castro y Sousa. Six different lines can be traced from Princess Sophie Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa.

https://aaregistry.org/story/englands-first-black-queen-sophie-charlotte-born/

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I had to look it up. The ancestry is suggested and if true quite distant. tymorial May 2019 #9

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