Kate Williams told The Guardian that the idea that Charlotte had African ancestry raises interesting implications for many royal families across Europe, suggesting that such a claim means arguing that her descendants could be classified as Black, including the present British royal family. This led to Buckingham Palace spokesman David Buck, who did not deny Charlotte's Black ancestry, telling the Globe at the time, This has been rumoured for years and years. Sep 27, 2015 - Margarita de Castro e Souza genealogy and descent - Madragana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barr, Michael C. and Wilkens, Edward (1973). Margarita was married to Jean II, count of Neufchetel (c. 1414 - 1489) and was mother to his heir Fernando de Neufchetel, Count of Neufchatel-Marnay (c. 1477 - 1522). [50] Certain personal assets that the Queen had brought from Mecklenburg-Strelitz were to revert to the senior branch of that dynasty, while the remainder of her assets, including her books, linen, art objects and china, were to be evenly divided among her surviving daughters. The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom are impaled with her father's arms as a Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In addition to Rosheuvel as the Queen, shes joined by Reg-Jean Page as Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, who catches the attention of the Bridgertons, Ruby Barker as Marina Thompson, amysterious newcomer among the Featheringtonhousehold, and Adjoa Andoh, who plays Lady Danbury, a woman about town and a key figure in Londons society. Queen Charlotte was the wife of George III and, like him, of German descent. Hold on, you might be saying. And if an old dead queen can help improve racial trust in an American city, perhaps she could do something similar over here. [3] According to diplomatic reports at the time of her engagement to GeorgeIII in 1761, Charlotte had received "a very mediocre education". According to the Washington Post, Valdes said that Portuguese royal Alfonso III's mistress Ouruana was a Black Moor. Lands? "A rainha Charlotte, esposa do rei ingls George III, descendia diretamente de Margarita de Castro e Sousa, um ramo negro da Casa Real Portuguesa", apontou o historiador, em artigo publicada na poca do programa. His descriptions of Charlotte's children in this same diary are equally unflattering. There was quite a miaow factor at court.". [22] From 1792 she found some relief from her worry about her husband by planning the gardens and decoration of a new residence for herself, Frogmore House, in Windsor Home Park. Well break down the theory below. [28], Queen Charlotte was an amateur botanist who took a great interest in Kew Gardens. According to The New York Post, Margarita de Castro e Souza claimed she "is a descendant of King Alfonso III of Portugal (1210-1279) and his one-named black mistress, Madragana.". Royalty & Race Equality as Prince Harry - Duke of Sussex marries African American Meghan Markle - Duchess of Sussex. Other jewels, including some gifted to the Queen by the Nawab of Arcot, were to be evenly distributed among her surviving daughters. Race was very much considered when it came to telling this story. If we class Charlotte as black, then ergo Queen Victoria and our entire royal family, [down] to Prince Harry, are also black a very interesting concept.". They regularly visited him, but the visits tended to be uncomfortable, as he had a tendency to embrace them and refuse to let them go. According to aPBS.orgarticle, The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families, thesespeculations were confirmed by two art historians who suggested that mysterious paintings ofthe Black magi must have been portraits of actual people from that time becausethe artist would not have been aware of the subtleties in coloring and facial bone structure of quadroons or octoroons. This would put Madragana once in Charlotte's 15th generation and twice in her 16th generation. Esses era os reis . These men are exhibited for their stature and Grecian-God like builds. If you google Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, you'll quickly come across a historian called Mario de Valdes y Cocom. For congressman Watt's wife Eulada, along with some other African-Americans in Charlotte, the most important issue is what the possibility that Queen Charlotte was black may mean for people in the city now. Countess Antonie Sibylle of Barby-Mhlingen. [32][33] That year, she held a large Christmas party for the children of all the families in Windsor and placed a whole tree in the drawing-room, decorated with tinsel, glass, baubles and fruits. This connection to Madragana comes via Charlotte's 15th century ancestor Margarita de Castro e Souza, a member of the Portuguese nobility, who - some assert - may have been Black. Sister of Violante de Castro, senhora de Mafra Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg Strelitz(May 19, 1744 Nov. 17, 1818). A funerary hatchment displaying the Queen's full coat of arms, painted in 1818, is on display at Kew Palace. Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry made headlines in March 2021, particularly over allegations of racism in the British royal family. [34] In 1788 the royal couple visited the Worcester Porcelain Factory (founded in 1751, and later to be known as Royal Worcester), where Queen Charlotte ordered a porcelain service that was later renamed "Royal Lily" in her honour. Could she have used her power to elevate other people of color in society? At 9:00 pm that same evening (8 September 1761), within six hours of her arrival, Charlotte was united in marriage with King GeorgeIII. Sir Allan Ramsay was the artist responsible for the majority of the paintings of the Queen and his representations of her were the most decidedly African of all her portraits. [26] Afterwards, the young Mozart accompanied the Queen in an aria which she sang, and played a solo work on the flute. The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images. While the Shondaland Netflix original seriesBridgertonis not technically a historical drama in the same sense as the streaming platforms The Crown or Hulus The Great, it does include several key real-life figures -- namely Queen Charlotte played by Golda Rosheuvel -- who help bring the Regency era back to life. Never meeting face to face, they confined their friendship to pen and paper. In an era of mixed-race celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Mariah Carey, and at a time when in the US, the UK and any other racially diverse countries mixed-raced relationships are common, this rule seems absurd. Margarita de Castro e Souza - Academic Dictionaries and . The comparison is even more interesting considering that Charlotte and the Queen of France were close friends and confidants in real life, making us wonder if Charlotte opens the door for more real-life figures to appear in future seasons. [51], The rest of Charlotte's property was sold at auction from May to August 1819. Margarita de Castro y Souza was a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman whose ancestry, he claims, came from the 13th century ruler Alfonso III and his lover Madragana, whom Valdes took to be. The Queen came to favour this residence, spending so much of her time there that it came to be known as The Queen's House. Subject: Margarita de Castro y Sousa > Possibly the reference to an African Queen of a British monarch referred to > Duchess Charlotte Sophie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III. Pgs. If she is black, aren't we all? To even the casual observer one can see he was an African with European ancestry. Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a small north-German duchy in the Holy Roman Empire.. ", Shawe-Taylor says that a more instructive source of images of Queen Charlotte might well be the many caricatures of her held at the British Museum. [48] She was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. ", Interestingly, back in 1999, after Valdes' research was reported on in The London Sunday Times and The Boston Globe, Buckingham Palace responded to the claim. According to Black Dutch researcher and author of the book Belle van Zuylens Forgotten Grandmother, Egmond Codfried, there was Black nobility in Europe later squashed for obvious reasons. [4] Her upbringing was similar to that of a daughter of an English country gentleman. Fernando was married to Claude de Vergy (c. 1476 - 1512). Another well-known porcelain service designed and named in her honour was the "Queen Charlotte" pattern. Her mother-in-law and Lord Bute had unsuccessfully opposed this arrangement, but as the King's illness of 1765 was temporary, Charlotte was aware neither of it, nor of the Regency Bill. But according to her and many historians, the generational distance between Charlotte and her possible African ancestor was so great that it made the suggestion ridiculous. They also said there was little evidence to show that Madragana was African. Even her physician, Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, reportedly described the elderly queen as "small and crooked, with a true mulatto face". [64] It was renamed in 1825 in honour of Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War officer and college benefactor. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images), Queen Charlotte, queen consort of George III of the United Kingdom. Margarita de Castro y Sousa. There would be no shame attached to it all," says the royal historian Hugo Vickers. While many have described Bridgerton as Gossip Girl meets Downton Abbey, Rosheuvel thinks it more closely aligns with Sofia Coppolas Marie Antoinette. [6] Charlotte turned to her German companions for friends, notably her close confidante Juliane von Schwellenberg. Half sister of Ferdinand de Neufchatel; Catarina de Castro; lvaro de Castro, 1 conde de Monsanto; D.lvaro de Castro, 1 Conde de Monsanto; Henrique de Castro, prior do Crato and 3 others; D. And the city's art gallery, the Mint museum, holds a sumptuous 1762 portrait of Charlotte by the Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay, showing the Queen of England in regal robes aged 17, the year after she married George III. Another Aptekar canvas features an even tighter close up, in which the queen's face is overlaid with the words "Oh Yeah She Is". Portrait of Charlotte (1744-1818), who was the wife of George III of the United Kingdom (1738-1820). [76] These details gave rise to much later claims that the queen was "mixed-race",[77][78] "biracial",[79] or "black". "The word 'blackamoor' in Shakespeare's time meant Muslim. 10 European Kings, Queens and Noblemen Who Would Be Considered Black by the One Drop Rule, Heres Why Other Caribbean Nations, Not Just Jamaica, Should Break Free from Queen Elizabeth as Their Head of State, Taye Diggs Responds to Backlash About His Sons Biracial Identity, Judge Mathis Schools Woman Who Claims Shes Not Black about Self-Hate. Reprsentation hraldique de la couronne ducale. According to PBS, however, Queen Charlotte directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. While researching a racial classification and the social phenomenon commonly known as passing, Frontline expanded on claims made as early as the 1940s about the royals mixed race background, citing several official portraits as evidence. Furthermore, her portraiture was not atypical for her time, and painted portraits in general should not be considered reliable evidence of a sitter's true appearance. Her clothes, furniture, and even her snuff were sold by Christie's. The riddle of Queen Charlotte's African ancestry was solved as a result of an earlier investigation into the black magi featured in 15th century Flemish paintings. Six different lines can be traced from Englands Queen Charlotte back to de Castro y Sousa, in a gene pool, which because of royal inbreeding, was already minuscule, thus explaining the queens unmistakable African appearance. "We all recognised that we all came from some place else. Ramsay was an anti-slavery intellectual of his day. One such portrait can be seen here. Reprinted in. That, surely, depends on how we define what it is to be black. On June 1, 1999, Evert Dijkema started a thread on the GEN-MEDIEVAL mailing list asking Indeed, in 1775, an Act of Parliament settled the property on Queen Charlotte in exchange for her rights to Somerset House. Fue el progenitor de la casa de Burgos, de la que diman, entre otras lneas, la de los Seores de Zelada del Camino, de la que se desprendieron las lneas de los Marqueses de Villacampo, de los Seores de la Casa Fuerte de Hinestrosa y la de los Seores de las villas de Santiuste y Pelilla. She used her closeness with GeorgeIII to keep herself informed and to make recommendations for offices. [77][79][98] David Buck, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson, was quoted by the Boston Globe as saying: "This has been rumoured for years and years. Charlotte's husband, who was probably unaware of her death, died a little over a year later..mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}, Sophia Charlotte was born on 19 May 1744. We publish narratives intentionally and specifically to enlighten and transform the world. One observer commented, "She is timid at first but talks a lot, when she is among people she knows. "[32] The practice of decorating a tree became popular among the British nobility and gentry, and later spread to the colonies. "The theory does not impress me, but even if it were true, the whole thing would have been so diluted by this stage that it couldn't matter less to our royal family. Various people have pointed out the physiological traits that so obviously identify the ethnicity of the British royal. He put difficult works of Handel, J. S. Bach, and Carl Friedrich Abel before the boy: he played them all at sight, to the amazement of those present. "I believe African-American Charlotteans have always been proud of Queen Charlotte's heritage and acknowledge it with a smile and a wink," she says. It is a matter of history, and frankly, weve got far more important things to talk about. The show is about an entire world. Segundo o pesquisador e historiador Mario de Valdes y Cocom, especialista em dispora africana, "seis linhas diferentes podem ser traadas ligando a rainha inglesa Charlotte e Margarita de Castro e Sousa". [30], Queen Charlotte has also been credited with introducing the Christmas tree to Britain and its colonies. It is well known and accepted. "Hopefully, the sketchiness will inspire others to further research and documentation of our rich history. Shoudl the page be renamed? Queen Charlotte died nearly two centuries ago but is still celebrated in her namesake American city. Margarita de Castro e Souza is a close kin of Francis Salvador who fought the British in America's War of Independence, as considered the Father of Reform Judaism. Fernando was married to Claude de Vergy (c. 1476 - 1512). Neuf gnrations sparent Charlotte de Margarita et 6 gnrations sparent . "La reina Carlota, esposa del rey de Inglaterra, Jorge III, descenda directamente de Margarita de Castro y Sousa, una rama negra de la casa real portuguesa", seal el historiador en 1996. "We've got a version of the same portrait. The claim originated with researcher and historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom, who argued back in the '90s in a piece for PBS Frontline that the queens features were conspicuously Negroid, as seen in particular portraits of her including the one shown above. Only after her brother Adolphus Frederick succeeded to the ducal throne, in 1752, did she gain any experience of princely duties and of court life. In the opening of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities she is dismissed in the second paragraph: "There was a king with a large jaw, and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England." Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, 11. 2. As a woman of color, how could I not be thrilled to be working for Shonda Rhimes? Andoh says. On 22 August, they reached Cuxhaven, where a small fleet awaited to convey them to England. Alfonso's lover, Madragana, would be Margarita's 4-times-great-grandmother. The proposed North American colonies of Vandalia[55][56][57] and Charlotina were also named for her. Though she was born in Germany, the daughter of a Duke, Queen Charlotte was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, which was the black branch of the Portuguese Royal House.. [6] In an argument he accused her of having sided with his enemies, while she called him the enemy of the King. [18] The Queen was responsible for the interior decoration of their new residence, described by friend of the Royal Family and diarist Mary Delany: "The entrance into the first room was dazzling, all furnished with beautiful Indian paper, chairs covered with different embroideries of the liveliest colours, glasses, tables, sconces, in the best taste, the whole calculated to give the greatest cheerfulness to the place."[17]. Thanks. It is a great "what if" of history. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was chartered in 1766 as Queen's College, in reference to Queen Charlotte. They included two future British monarchs, GeorgeIV and WilliamIV; as well as Charlotte, Princess Royal, who became Queen of Wrttemberg; Prince Edward, the father of Queen Victoria; Prince Adolphus, grandfather of the British queen consort Mary of Teck; and Prince Ernest Augustus, who became King of Hanover. When told by the Prince of Wales that the King was to be removed to Kew, but that she should move to Queen's House or to Windsor, she successfully insisted that she accompany her spouse to Kew. What a blessing to keep good company! He argues that her features, as seen in royal portraits, were conspicuously African, and contends that they were noted by numerous contemporaries. Margarita de Castro y Sousa was born in the year 1419, daughter of Fernando Rodrigues De Castro and Mencia de Sousa., they gave birth to 1 child. Knowing more about an old dead queen can play a part in reconciliation.". Here, Charlotte is a woman who hasn't so much intrigued as been regularly damned. Queen Charlotte of Britain was a mixed-race woman of African ancestry. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and of Ireland as the wife of King GeorgeIII from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. It is believed she did not visit him again after June 1812. La Reine Charlotte, ne Duchesse Sophia Charlotte de Mecklembourg-Strelitz le 19 mai 1744, est morte le 17 novembre 1818. Ascendncias e parentescos da Casa do Couto d'Alm em Soutelo de Aguiar", Porto, 2000. [8] Only the royal family, the party who had travelled from Germany, and a handful of guests were present. The arms were: Quarterly of six, 1st, Or, a buffalo's head cabossed Sable, armed and ringed Argent, crowned and langued Gules (Mecklenburg); 2nd, Azure, a griffin segreant Or (Rostock); 3rd, Per fess, in chief Azure, a griffin segreant Or, and in the base Vert, a bordure Argent (Principality of Schwerin); 4th, Gules, a cross pate Argent crowned Or (Ratzeburg); 5th, Gules, a dexter arm Argent issuant from clouds in sinister flank and holding a finger ring Or (County of Schwerin); 6th, Or, a buffalo's head Sable, armed Argent, crowned and langued Gules (Wenden); Overall an inescutcheon, per fess Gules and Or (Stargard). [59], Her provision of funding to the General Lying-in Hospital in London prevented its closure; today it is named Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, and is an acknowledged centre of excellence amongst maternity hospitals. Six different lines can be traced from English Queen Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, in a gene pool which because of royal inbreeding was already minuscule, thus explaining the Queen's unmistakable African appearance, historian Mario deValdes y Cocom asserts in his findings. Although now just a historical curio, it was controversially invoked recently by the African-American lawyer Alton Maddox Jr, who argued that under the one-drop rule, Barack Obama wouldn't be the first black president. Her granddaughter, Antoinette de Neufchatel, married Philipp, Graf von Salm. Pizarro, Jos Augusto de Sotto Mayor, Linhagens Medievais Portuguesas, 3 vols., Porto, Universidade Moderna, 1999. She took an interest in the War of the Bavarian Succession (17781779), and it is possible that it was due to her efforts that the King supported British intervention in the continuing conflict between JosephII and Charles Theodore of Bavaria in 1785. 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