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10 de may. de 2023 · HISTORY & CULTURE. EXPLAINER. Britain’s first Black queen? The real story of Queen Charlotte. Historians still debate whether she was really Britain’s first Black queen. But a new...
27 de dic. de 2020 · She was a 17-year-old German princess when she traveled to England to wed George, who later went to war with his American colonies and lost badly. Historian Mario De Valdes y Cocom argues that...
5 de may. de 2023 · Queen Charlotte was never about representation for Black people or telling Black stories. It was about money, and about reifying empire and wealth, and placating Black people by claiming...
27 de dic. de 2020 · Was Queen Charlotte Black? Here’s what we know. ‘Bridgerton,’ the new Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes, has renewed interest in the British royal family’s possible African ancestry. By DeNeen L....
5 de may. de 2023 · Like its sister show, “Queen Charlotte” takes substantial liberties with the historical record, portraying Charlotte as a Black woman whose marriage opened doors for people of color in...
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5 de may. de 2023 · Initial speculation about Charlotte being Black or of mixed-race descent began in the 1940s, after the Jamaican-American journalist and historian J.A. Rogers theorized in his book Sex and Race:...
22 de jun. de 2021 · Some historians believe she possessed African ancestry, descended from a Portuguese royal and his Moorish mistress. If true, it would make Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the mother of two British kings and the grandmother of Queen Victoria, the British Royal Family’s first multiracial member.
