What about the idea that she was an immigrant - a German teenager who had to make a new life in England in the late 18th century? Most of her 15 children were born in Buckingham House, although St James's Palace remained the official and ceremonial royal residence. 62.48.171.17 14:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC), What about the possibility of this family/person having Sephardic Jewish ancestry? Oh! Various peoplehave pointed out the physiological traits that so obviously identify the ethnicity of the British royal. [35], The queen founded orphanages and, in 1809, became the patron (providing new funding) of the General Lying-in Hospital, a hospital for expectant mothers. Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. 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. La Reine Charlotte, ne Duchesse Sophia Charlotte de Mecklembourg-Strelitz le 19 mai 1744, est morte le 17 novembre 1818. *Antnio Caetano de Sousa, "Histria Genealgica da Casa Real Portuguesa", Coimbra, Atlntida-Livraria Editora, 1946. They were passionate admirers of the music of George Frideric Handel. But did she also have African ancestry? "Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese Royal House," Valdes wrote for PBS' Frontline. 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. [6], As the King gradually became permanently insane, the Queen's personality altered: she developed a terrible temper, sank into depression, and no longer enjoyed appearing in public, not even at the musical concerts she had so loved; and her relationships with her adult children became strained. [64] It was renamed in 1825 in honour of Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War officer and college benefactor. [77][83][84][85] Valdes also seized on Charlotte's 1761 Allan Ramsay portrait as evidence of African ancestry, citing the queen's "unmistakable African appearance" and "negroid physiogomy" [sic]. [89][75][90][91][80] Aside from Stockmar's jab at her appearance shortly before her death, Charlotte was never referred to as having any specifically African physical features, let alone ancestry, during her lifetime. [82] Valdes claimed that Charlotte had inherited these features from one of her distant ancestors, Madragana (born c.1230), a mistress of King AfonsoIII of Portugal (c.1210 1279). Valdes wrote about her likely ancestor, as well as the queens mulatto features: Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. [6] She also supervised the upbringing of her granddaughter, Princess Charlotte of Wales. 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.. If she is known at all here, it is from her depiction in Alan Bennett's play as the wife of "mad" King George III. Royalty & Race Equality as Prince Harry - Duke of Sussex marries African American Meghan Markle - Duchess of Sussex. Contudo, o que realmente provaria a ligao Margarita de Castro e Sousa, uma nobre do sculo XV, descendia de Madragana. During her last years, she was met with a growing lack of popularity and sometimes subjected to demonstrations. The proposed North American colonies of Vandalia[55][56][57] and Charlotina were also named for her. Stockmar, who served as personal physician to the queen's granddaughter's husband LeopoldI of Belgium, arrived at court just two years before Charlotte's death in 1816. *Jos Augusto de Sotto Mayor Pizarro, Linhagens Medievais Portuguesas, 3 vols., Porto, Universidade Moderna, 1999. 1230-? We have forgotten or perhaps never knew that she founded Kew Gardens, that she bore 15 children (13 of whom survived to adulthood), and that she was a patron of the arts who may have commissioned Mozart. Queen Charlottewaswife of the Englands King George III (1738-1820), butbecause her features were soconspicuouslyAfrican,the Black community, both in the U.S. and throughout the British Commonwealth, have rallied around pictures of herfor generations. [6] The princess dowager interfered with Charlotte's efforts to establish social contacts by insisting on rigid court etiquette. Evidence has been obtained suggesting that Queen Charlotte was directly. Not much indeed! He has systematically studied hundreds of paintings of famous and less famous European nobility. O elo, segundo Valdes y Cocom, seria a nobre Margarita de Castro e Sousa, que viveu no sculo 15. Hold on, you might be saying. [58] In Tonga, the royal family adopted the name Slote (Tongan version of Charlotte) in her honour, and notable individuals included Slote Lupepauu and Slote Tupou III. [6], The King's bout of physical and mental illness in 1788 distressed and terrified the Queen. Fernando was married to Claude de Vergy (c. 1476 - 1512). The Ogre (talk) 13:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC), Consider it done! (983 1,682 pixels, file size: 165 KB, MIME type: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, Last edited on 10 November 2022, at 17:13, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:The_Ogre, GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or later, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Margarita_de_Castro_e_Souza_genealogy_and_descent.JPG&oldid=704653736, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the, {{Information |Description=Line of descent from. This, however, is contradicted by genealogists, who trace Margarita's descent to Afonso III of Portugal and a mistress of his called Madragana (Mor Afonso), daughter of the Mozarab (Iberian Christians living under Muslim domination) governor of Faro, Aloandro Ben Bekar . Charlotte was 11 years older than Marie Antoinette, yet they shared many interests, such as their love of music and the arts, in which they both enthusiastically took an interest. "[17], From 1778 the Royal family spent much of their time at a newly constructed residence, the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, opposite Windsor Castle, in Windsor Great Park, where the King enjoyed hunting deer. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Adding Queen Charlotte afforded us an opportunity to see what true excess and decadence looked like at the time. 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. Geni requires JavaScript! She maintained a close relationship with Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and the French Revolution likely enhanced the emotional strain felt by Charlotte. When you drive from the airport in North Carolina, you can't miss the monumental bronze sculpture of the woman said to be Britain's first black queen, dramatically bent backwards as if blown by a jet engine. He argues that her features, as seen in royal portraits, were conspicuously African, and contends that they were noted by numerous contemporaries. It is a matter of history, and frankly, weve got far more important things to talk about. Charlotte has Margarita de Castro e Sousa once in her 9th generation and twice in her 10th generation. De efte matrimonio nacieron; primero Fernando, que fuccedi en la Cafa; fegundo carlos de Neufchaftel, Arzobifpo de Bafanzon, Principe del Sacro Romano Imperio, que muri en 20 de Julio de 1498; tercero Juan de Neufchaftel, Seor de Sant-Aubin, que muri fin fuccefion; quarta Juana de Neufchaftel, que caf con Luis de Viena, Seor de Rufey, Baron de Chewo, con fuccefion; quinta Ifabel de neufchaftel, que caf ao de 1470 con Filiberto Felipe de la Pal, Conde de la Roche, Seor de Vorrambon, con fuccefion; fexta Margarita de Neufchaftel, muger de Guillelmo, Seor de Ribopierre, Ratploftein, Governador de Alfacia y del Confejo de Eftado del Emperador Federico III con larga fuccefion. 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. This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors. Six different lines can be traced from Princess Sophie Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa. 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. The resulting suite of paintings is a series of riffs on that Ramsay portrait of Charlotte. No matter what, Rosheuvel certainly leaves her mark asQueen Charlotte, who is a welcome addition to the series. This would put Madragana once in Charlotte's 15th generation and twice in her 16th generation. She is the longest-serving female consort and second-longest-serving consort in British history (after Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), having served as such from her marriage (on 8 September 1761) to her death (17 November 1818), a total of 57 years and 70 days. 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. If Queen Charlotte was of African ancestry, then Queen Victoria, her granddaughter, would have also had African blood,and, according to the discriminative one drop rule used historically for racial classification, may also be considered a Black person. She was the grandmother of Queen Victoria, and the great-great-great-great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Niektrzy sugeruj, e jedn z odlegych przodki Charlotty bya Margarita de Castro e Souza, XV-wieczna portugalska szlachcianka, ktrej pochodzenie wywodzi si z kolei od krla . [45] Queen Charlotte and Queen Marie Antoinette of France had maintained a close relationship. Still, it is a notability. Esses era os reis . Charlotte's 7-times-great-grandmother was Portuguese noblewoman Margarita de Castro e Souza, who had traced her ancestry all the way back to King Afonso III of Portugal (ruled 1216-1260). [8], Upon her wedding day, Charlotte spoke no English. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 09:06. ", Given that historians differ so widely on whether Charlotte was the first mixed-race queen in British royalty, we rate this claim as Unproven.. 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). [29] Her interest in botany led to the South African flower, the Bird of Paradise, being named Strelitzia reginae in her honour. [20] Charlotte particularly interested herself in German issues. Well break down the theory below. [6] After having attended a reception in London on 29 April 1817, she was jeered by a crowd. Many historians believe that Queen Charlotte, who lived from 1744 to 1818, may have had distant African ancestry. On June 1, 1999, Evert Dijkema started a thread on the GEN-MEDIEVAL mailing list asking But to wish you a good morning, in the pretty blue and white room where I had the pleasure to sit and read with you The Hermit, a poem which is such a favourite with me that I have read it twice this summer. Valdes uses Charlotte's ancestor Margarita de Castro y Sousa as evidence, stating that there are "six different lines" of ancestry between them, even though there only three lines of ancestry between them. [6], The King enjoyed country pursuits and riding and preferred to keep his family's residence as much as possible in the then rural towns of Kew and Richmond. Shoudl the page be renamed? ", "The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families", "Was Queen Charlotte Black? And if she had African forebears, would that mean we could readily infer she was black? "Hopefully, the sketchiness will inspire others to further research and documentation of our rich history. Surely Helen Mirren played Charlotte in the film The Madness of King George and she was, last time I looked, white? Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg Strelitz(May 19, 1744 Nov. 17, 1818). Duchess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte, 1738-1820) was the queen consort of King George III (1738-1820). [32] She decorated the branch with the assistance of her ladies-in-waiting and then had the court gather to sing carols and distribute gifts. Queen Charlotte died nearly two centuries ago but is still celebrated in her namesake American city. A. Rogers's 1940 book Sex and Race: Volume I,[75][76] in which he concluded that the queen must have had a "Negro strain" based on what he described as her "broad nostrils and heavy lips" in her portrait by Allan Ramsay, and a quote by Horace Walpole describing her "nostrils spreading too wide; mouth has the same fault". Wife of Jean II de Neufchtel, seigneur de Montagu Durante quase setecentos anos a Pennsula Ibrica, foi dominada e colonizada por mouros africanos. Ramsay was an anti-slavery intellectual of his day. One such portrait can be seen here. Please note that these Sephardic Jews are different from the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. [6] In an argument he accused her of having sided with his enemies, while she called him the enemy of the King. 444 y 445. We want audiences to relate to these characters, and to see themselves onscreen, no matter who you are, he adds. [32] In December 1800, Queen Charlotte set up the first known English Christmas tree at Queen's Lodge, Windsor. That proved to be the case; to make sure, he instructed her shortly after their wedding "not to meddle", a precept she was glad to follow.[7]. "A rainha Charlotte, esposa do rei ingls George 3, 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. Washington, DC Office The voyage was extremely difficult; the party encountered three storms at sea, and landed at Harwich only on 7 September. Maria Margarida de Castro e Albuquerque (nasceu em Olinda? O elo, segundo Valdes y Cocom, seria a nobre Margarita de Castro e Sousa, que viveu no sculo 15. Doa Menca de Sousa, fegunda muger de Don Fernando de Caftro, como queda dicho. [3] According to diplomatic reports at the time of her engagement to GeorgeIII in 1761, Charlotte had received "a very mediocre education". A funerary hatchment displaying the Queen's full coat of arms, painted in 1818, is on display at Kew Palace. [25] The Mozarts were summoned to court on 19 May and played before a limited circle from six to ten o'clock. More private and compact, the new property stood amid rolling parkland not far from St James's Palace. The suggestion that Queen Charlotte was black implies that her granddaughter (Queen Victoria) and her great-great-great-great-granddaughter (Queen Elizabeth II) had African forebears. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim is a reporter with experience working in television, international news coverage, fact checking, and creative writing. Various people have pointed out the physiological traits that so obviously identify the ethnicity of the British royal. In the US, there was for many decades a much-derided "one-drop rule", whereby any white-looking person with any percentage of "black blood" was not regarded as being really white. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Granted them titles? They reached Strelitz on 14 August 1761, and were received the next day by the reigning duke, Princess Charlotte's brother, at which time the marriage contract was signed by him on the one hand and Lord Harcourt on the other. Suite au mariage de Margarita de Castro y Sousa avec Jean de Neufchtel, ils sont les anctres de plusieurs familles de la noblesse europenne. [92][93] Regardless, Madragana was more likely Mozarab,[94][95][96][97] and any genetic contribution from an ancestor fifteen generations removed would be so diluted anyway as to be functionally negligible. Lands? Knowing more about an old dead queen can play a part in reconciliation.". On William's death, Charlotte's bequest then sparked a protracted dispute between her granddaughter Queen Victoria, who claimed the jewels as the property of the British Crown, and Charlotte's now eldest-surviving son Ernest, who claimed the jewels by right of being the most senior male member of the House of Hanover. Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, was then music-master to the Queen. He pointed to Charlotte's . "It's great that this discussion can now come out of the closet into the public places of Charlotte, so we all can acknowledge and celebrate it.". This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Did I miss something? If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. [15] Eventually in 1858, over twenty years after the death of WilliamIV and nearly forty years after Charlotte's death, the matter was decided in favour of Ernest's son George, upon which Victoria had the jewels given into the custody of the Hanoverian ambassador. Sophia Charlotte was born on 19 May 1744. [24], In April 1764, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, then aged eight, arrived in Britain with his family as part of their grand tour of Europe and remained until July 1765. She told the crowd that it was upsetting to be treated like that after such long service.[6]. His descriptions of Charlotte's children in this same diary are equally unflattering. Menocal, Mara Rosa (2002). De Valdes y Cocom believes that Queen Charlotte, known as a German princess, was actually directly related to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman nine generations removed. You'd expect they would have a field day if she was.". Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. 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. [81], In 1999, PBS writer Mario de Valdes y Cocom popularized and expanded on Rogers's claim in a website developed for PBS Frontline,[82] which has since been cited as the main source by a number of articles on the topic. I'm also thrilled to say, Yeah, do you know what? 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. The thing about Ramsay is that, unlike Reynolds and Gainsborough, who were quite imprecise in their portraits, he was a very accurate depicter of his subjects, so that if she looked slightly more African in his portraits than others, that might be because she was more well depicted. A PBS report also says that Queen Charlotte was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, . Pour les hypothses concernant les origines de la dynastie, voir l article Wikipdia en Franais, Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Anexo:Botnicos por la abreviatura del autor, LVII Legislatura del Congreso de la Unin de Mxico. Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a small north-German duchy in the Holy Roman Empire. Margarida de Castro e Souza, a 15th century Portuguese noblewoman, was an ancestor of Queen Charlotte, 1744 - 1818, consort of King George III of the United Kingdom, through her mother Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe - Hildburghausen. Her youngest daughter Sophia inherited the Royal Lodge. He claims that the queen, though German, was directly descended from a black branch of the Portuguese royal family, related to Margarita de Castro e Souza, a 15th-century Portuguese. "Many of us are now enjoying a bit of 'I told you so', now that the story is out. As a result, none of her daughters had surviving legitimate issue (one, Princess Charlotte, had a stillborn daughter during her marriage; another, Princess Sophia, may have had an illegitimate son). "I took my cues from the passionate responses of individuals whom I asked to help me understand what Queen Charlotte represents to them.". What a blessing to keep good company! Never meeting face to face, they confined their friendship to pen and paper. Aussi tonnant que cela puisse paraitre, Margarita de Castro y Sousa, que l'on dit descendante d'Alphonse III et de sa maitresse trangre, serait l'anctre de la reine Mxima des Pays-Bas, pourtant ne dans une famille de roturiers en Argentine. Other jewels, including some gifted to the Queen by the Nawab of Arcot, were to be evenly distributed among her surviving daughters. She married George III of England on September 8, 1761, at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, at the age of 17 years of age becoming the Queen of England and Ireland. Margarida's descent from a 6 times removed speculated (albeit unproven) Moorish woman is one of several reasons Queen Charlotte, and consequently the present British Royal Family, is thought to have African ancestry. "If she was black," says the historian Kate Williams, "this raises a lot of important suggestions about not only our royal family but those of most of Europe, considering that Queen Victoria's descendants are spread across most of the royal families of Europe and beyond. [6] Queen Charlotte and the Prince of Wales finally reconciled, on her initiative, in March 1791. Su nombre cientfico viene dado por su nomenclatura binomial seguida de la abreviatura del autor/es botnico/s Wikipedia Espaol, Anexo:Botnicos por la abreviatura del autor Autor botnico es quien por primera vez describe una planta. For Rosheuvel, it was an opportunity to play around with the character, especially the way she acts and appears onscreen. Perhaps, instead of just being a boring bunch of semi-inbred white stiffs, our royal family becomes much more interesting. The dispute would not be resolved in Ernest's lifetime. It's about a society. Van Dusen says. Plusieurs de ses anctres descendent de colons portugais tablis au Brsil, qui descendraient du roi Alphonse III. [53], Places named after her include the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida Gwaii) in British Columbia, Canada, and Queen Charlotte City on Haida Gwaii; Queen Charlotte Sound (not far from the Haida Gwaii Islands); Queen Charlotte Channel (near Vancouver, Canada); Queen Charlotte Bay in West Falkland; Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island, New Zealand; several fortifications, including Fort Charlotte, Saint Vincent; Charlottesville, Virginia; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Charlotte, North Carolina;[54] Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Mecklenburg County, Virginia; Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte County, Florida, Port Charlotte, Florida, Charlotte Harbor, Florida, and Charlotte, Vermont. ] and Charlotina were also named for her Markle - Duchess of Sussex Christmas tree at Queen 's full margarita de castro e sousa! 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