"Moors could be white from North Africa. The Queen suspected the Prince of Wales of a plan to have the King declared insane with the assistance of Doctor Warren, and to take over the Regency. [20], When the King had his first, temporary, bout of mental illness in 1765, her mother-in-law and Lord Bute kept Charlotte unaware of the situation. It is believed she did not visit him again after June 1812. Pour les autres significations, voir Duc (homonymie). Margarita de Castro e Souza herself descended from King Alfonso III of Portugal and his concubine, Madragana, a Moor that Alfonso III took as . The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom are impaled with her father's arms as a Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. ", Lisa Hilton, a writer of history books and historical fiction, had a similar argument: "We have no idea of what Mandragana looked like. [6] Queen Charlotte and the Prince of Wales finally reconciled, on her initiative, in March 1791. Race was very much considered when it came to telling this story. There would be no shame attached to it all," says the royal historian Hugo Vickers. Margarita de Castro y Sousa (too old to reply) e***@gmail.com 5 years ago Leo Van de Pas..well, don't you sound like a bigot."yuck" as you wrote. Prior to that, she was the youngest daughter of Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Duke of a small north German town, and his wife, Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen. "Margarita" is not the usual spelling, "Margarida" is at least currently, I'mm not sure about the 1400ies . She truly inhabited the character. 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". Maybe - and this is just a theory - the Windsors would do well to claim their African heritage: it might be a PR coup, one that would strengthen the bonds of our queen's beloved Commonwealth. *Antnio Caetano de Sousa, "Histria Genealgica da Casa Real Portuguesa", Coimbra, Atlntida-Livraria Editora, 1946. His descriptions of Charlotte's children in this same diary are equally unflattering. Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, was then music-master to the Queen. The Ogre (talk) 17:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz#Claims of African ancestry, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Margarita_de_Castro_e_Souza&oldid=339518201, This page was last edited on 23 January 2010, at 11:35. "[99], Media related to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at Wikimedia Commons, "Queen Charlotte" redirects here. ", Given that historians differ so widely on whether Charlotte was the first mixed-race queen in British royalty, we rate this claim as Unproven.. Neuf gnrations sparent Charlotte de Margarita et 6 gnrations sparent . Or would our royal family be threatened if it were shown they had African forebears? In 1752, when she was eight years old, Sophie Charlotte's father died. 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. [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. 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. ", "Albion's Queen by All Admir'd': Reassessing the Public Reputation of Queen Charlotte, 1761-1818", Queen Charlotte, 17441818: A Bilingual Exhibit (c1994), "The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families Queen Charlotte", "Archival material relating to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz&oldid=1142246993, 9. But maybe that isn't the most important issue, anyway. 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. Eso cambi radicalmente desde la sentencia T-760 de 2008, que seal que la salud es un derecho fundamental, por lo cual su regulacin requiere ley estatutaria. [20] Apparently her recommendations were not direct, as she on one occasion, in 1779, asked her brother Charles to burn her letter, because the King suspected that a person she had recently recommended for a post was the client of a woman who sold offices. A PBS report also says that Queen Charlotte was directly descended from 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. It is well known and accepted. "The word 'blackamoor' in Shakespeare's time meant Muslim. Countess Antonie Sibylle of Barby-Mhlingen. [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. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Therefore this article should not be deleted. And if she had African forebears, would that mean we could readily infer she was black? Margarida de Castro e Sousa, was a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman, who traced her ancestry to King Afonso III of Portugal (1210-1279) and one of his mistresses, Madragana (c. The Ogre (talk) 13:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC), Consider it done! There were MANY Sephardic Jews in Spain/Portugal (hundreds of thousands of them), but many of them were driven out of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions (those that did not want to be expelled would face the death penalty, or they could convert to Catholicism and become "New Christians," or "marranos"/"conversos"). [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. ", "Meghan Markle Might Not Be the First Mixed-Race British Royal", Stuart Jeffries, "Was this Britain's first black queen? 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 a Moor and therefore an African. 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. We will never know which box Queen Charlotte would have ticked, though we can take a good guess. She introduced the Christmas tree to Britain, after decorating one for a Christmas party for children from Windsor in 1800. When the doctor, Warren, was called, she was not informed and was not given the opportunity to speak with him. Mary, Princess Royal (Mary Henrietta; 4 November 1631 - 24 December 1660) was Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau by marriage to Prince William II, and co-regent for her son during his minority as Sovereign Prince of Orange from 1651 to 1660. Charlotte was born into the royal family of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a duchy in northern Germany. Due to the extent of the King's illness he was incapable of knowing or understanding that she had died. Fernando was married to Claude de Vergy (c. 1476 - 1512). The dispute would not be resolved in Ernest's lifetime. 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 Feb 2023 10:35:49 [26] Afterwards, the young Mozart accompanied the Queen in an aria which she sang, and played a solo work on the flute. [86] His conclusion is based on various historical sources that describe Madragana as either Moorish[87] or Mozarab,[88] which Valdes interpreted to mean that she was black. Her youngest daughter Sophia inherited the Royal Lodge. [74] The idea originated with writer J. She was the youngest daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Prince of Mirow (1708-1752) and of his wife Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713-1761). To even the casual observer one can see he was an African with European ancestry. 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. More recently, a Frontline investigation (opens in new tab) by historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom traced Charlotte's ancestry via six separate lines back to Margarita de Castro e Souza, a 15th . The children of Duke Charles were all born at the Untere Schloss (Lower Castle) in . Margarida Alexandra Castro de Souza e Albuquerque * 1968; Margarida de Andrade de Albuquerque; Margarida de Arruda Coutinho de Medeiros Albuquerque; Margarida Brbara Joaquina de Albuquerque * 1750; D. Margarida Campos de Carvalho de Alarco Albuquerque * 2011; Margarida Cndida de Lacerda Aranha Mouro e Albuquerque; Margarida da Cunha de . Charlotte has Margarita de Castro e Sousa once in her 9th generation and twice in her 10th generation. One observer commented, "She is timid at first but talks a lot, when she is among people she knows. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim is a reporter with experience working in television, international news coverage, fact checking, and creative writing. [20] Charlotte particularly interested herself in German issues. In 1760, the young and unmarried GeorgeIII inherited the British throne. He notes that Charlotte's doctors occasionally used racially pejorative terms to describe her features, illustrating his claims with . *Felgueiras Gayo & Carvalhos de Basto, "Nobilirio das Famlias de Portugal", Braga, 1989. "The Expediency of Securing Our American Colonies, &c." (1763), p. 14. 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. Six different lines can be traced from Princess Sophie Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa. This would put Madragana once in Charlotte's 15th generation and twice in her 16th generation. Suite au mariage de Margarita de Castro y Sousa avec Jean de Neufchtel, ils sont les anctres de plusieurs familles de la noblesse europenne. 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. born 1776, died 1828, age 52. with King George III of Great Britain. Hardly. [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. No matter what, Rosheuvel certainly leaves her mark asQueen Charlotte, who is a welcome addition to the series. They were parents to daughter . [] It was the director of the Burney Project (Fanny Burney, the prolific 19th century British diarist, had been secretary to the Queen), Dr. Joyce Hemlow, who obtained from Olwen Hedly, the most recent biographer of the Queen Charlotte (1975), at least half a dozen quotes by her contemporaries regarding her negroid features. [72][78][80], Proponents of the African ancestry claim also hold to a literal interpretation of Baron Stockmar's diary, in which he described Charlotte as "small and crooked, with a real Mulatto face". Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a small north-German duchy in the Holy Roman Empire.. & 2023 CBS Studios Inc. and CBS Interactive Inc., Paramount companies. [91] The use of the term "Moor" as a racial identifier for Charlotte's ancestor Madragana is also problematic as during the Middle Ages the term was not used to describe race but religious affiliation. "I don't think so at all. Not much indeed! Most of her 15 children were born in Buckingham House, although St James's Palace remained the official and ceremonial royal residence. Downtown, there is another prominent sculpture of Queen Charlotte, in which she's walking with two dogs as if out for a stroll in 21st-century America. Un duc, d Wikipdia en Franais, Liste de zoologistes Attention, il n est pas d usage en zoologie d utiliser d abrviation pour les noms des auteurs (contrairement aux usages de la botanique, voir ici). "Margarita")? Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Contudo, o que realmente provaria a ligao Margarita de Castro e Sousa, uma nobre do sculo XV, descendia de Madragana. 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). Well break down the theory below. I'm also thrilled to say, Yeah, do you know what? 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. Margarita de Castro e Sousamarried Count Jean II de Neufchatelandhad 1child. 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. It is a matter of history, and frankly, weve got far more important things to talk about. 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. They were received by the King and his family at the garden gate, which marked the first meeting of the bride and groom. Pour les hypothses concernant les origines de la Wikipdia en Franais, Gnalogie Gnrale Des Captiens Cette page est une annexe de: Captiens Gnalogie gnrale des Captiens Annexe de: Captiens Cette gnalogie ne prsente que les certitudes. However, many challenged any claim she was the first "Black royal," pointing to Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, as being the first mixed-race member of the British royal family with African ancestry. The French Revolution of 1789 probably added to the strain that Charlotte felt. 1230-? 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. 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]. 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. [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. 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. Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova Margarita de Castro e Sousa's 11x great grandson was Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhein Margarita de Castro e Sousa's 11x great granddaughter was Princess Alice, Countess Of Athlone Margarita de Castro e Sousa's 11x great granddaughter was Grand Duchess Mariya Mikhailovna Of Russia Margarita de Castro e . This information is part of Family tree Morales Abeln by Vincent on Genealogy Online. [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). 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". Reprsentation hraldique de la couronne ducale. In fact, Charlotte may not have been our first black queen: there is another theory that suggests that Philippa of Hainault (1314-69), consort of Edward III and a woman who may have had African ancestry, holds that title. [32] In December 1800, Queen Charlotte set up the first known English Christmas tree at Queen's Lodge, Windsor. Elizabeth was an eighth-generation descedant of Margarita de Castro e Sousa (d. 1483). The voyage was extremely difficult; the party encountered three storms at sea, and landed at Harwich only on 7 September. If you google Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, you'll quickly come across a historian called Mario de Valdes y Cocom. The Regency Bill of 1765 stated that if the King should become permanently unable to rule, Charlotte was to become Regent. Antoinette's daughter in turn married a Graf von Erbach. [37], Up until 1788, portraits of Charlotte often depict her in maternal poses with her children, and she looks young and contented;[38] however, in that year her husband fell seriously ill and became temporarily insane. It's about a society. Van Dusen says. It is a matter of history, and frankly, we've got far more important things to talk about.. Charlotte's name was given to thoroughfares throughout Georgian Britain - most notably Charlotte Square in Edinburgh's New Town - but her lack of resonance and glamour in the minds of Londoners is typified by the fact that there is a little square in Bloomsbury called Queen's Square. Assim, a nobre estaria diretamente ligada ao ramo negro da Casa Real Portuguesa.. 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 . 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 . Yes, Aloandro Ben Bekar was partially of Sephardic origin, so Margarita de Castro e Souza also had that in her genealogy. Putting the history on top of the table should make for opportunities for provocative, healing conversations.". She brings real import to the world as we get to be in some amazing spaces with her -- from Buckingham Home to St. Regis Palace., He adds, Not to mention, she was definitely very much a part of the social scene during Regency times, so having her with us was important from a historical perspective as well.. 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. While many have described Bridgerton as Gossip Girl meets Downton Abbey, Rosheuvel thinks it more closely aligns with Sofia Coppolas Marie Antoinette. Queen Consort Charlotte of Wrttemberg. Yet the theory that Queen Charlotte may have been black, albeit sketchy, is nonetheless one that is gaining currency. "I took my cues from the passionate responses of individuals whom I asked to help me understand what Queen Charlotte represents to them.". For Rosheuvel, it was an opportunity to play around with the character, especially the way she acts and appears onscreen. When Golda read for the role, we knew we had found our queen, Van Dusen says. [15] [76] These details gave rise to much later claims that the queen was "mixed-race",[77][78] "biracial",[79] or "black". "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. At 9:00 pm that same evening (8 September 1761), within six hours of her arrival, Charlotte was united in marriage with King GeorgeIII. 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. Surely Helen Mirren played Charlotte in the film The Madness of King George and she was, last time I looked, white? Jon Presco https://rosamondpress.com/2018/05/18/the-sephardic-trojan-horse-in-jersualem/ (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images). 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. Nous attirons l attention du lecteur sur son Wikipdia en Franais, Botnicos por la abreviatura del autor Anexo:Botnicos por la abreviatura del autor Saltar a navegacin, bsqueda Autor botnico es quien por primera vez describe una planta. U of Minnesota Press. [68], The Queen's arms changed twice to mirror the changes in her husband's arms, once in 1801 and then again in 1816. [6] After having attended a reception in London on 29 April 1817, she was jeered by a crowd. ), who . [36] The education of women was of great importance to her, and she ensured that her daughters were better educated than was usual for young women of the day; however, she also insisted that her daughters live restricted lives close to their mother, and she refused to allow them to marry until they were well-advanced in years. 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. Although the " nephew" of the pope (son) he later was in contention to be the pope himself but was denied not because of being black but because he was a "bastard" ,his mother married after he was born. There was quite a miaow factor at court.". Another Aptekar canvas features an even tighter close up, in which the queen's face is overlaid with the words "Oh Yeah She Is". 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. 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. 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. 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. What a blessing to keep good company! ,viveu no sculo XVII ), Senhora de Basto e Condessa de Vimioso, filha unica de D. Joana de Castro e do 4 donatrio da capitania de Pernambuco D. Duarte de Albuquerque Coelho, seu pai durante o reinado de D. Filipe III, tambm ostentou os ttulos de Conde de Pernambuco, e Marques de Basto. When the research was first published in 1999, the Sunday Times wrote, an American genealogist has established that Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, was directly descended from the illegitimate son of an African mistress in the Portuguese royal house., Debates over Charlottes ancestry and race were renewed by Prince Harrys marriage to Meghan Markle, with questions over whether she was truly the first person of color to join the royal family. If she is black, aren't we all? Ania Loomba, a professor of literature at the University of Pennsylvania, who also teaches histories of race and colonialism, argued that if a person was described as a Moor or blackamoor, it did not necessarily mean they were Black. I started to wonder what that could have looked like. A teoria no nova e tem dividido os historiadores. Despite being thus feted, Charlotte has not yet had much attention, say, during the annual Black History week in Britain. Sua investigao conseguiu rastrear os antepassados de Charlotte at chegar a Margarita de Castro e Souza, uma aristocrata do sculo XV que descenderia do filho ilegtimo do rei Alfonso III . She was greatly distraught when she heard the news that the King and Queen of France had been executed. Yet Charlotte (1744-1818) has much less resonance in the land where she was actually queen. "In private conversations, African-Americans have always acknowledged and found a sense of pride in this 'secret'," says Watt. Depictions of her varied considerably, as seen in the portraits below: But other historians are more skeptical. Plusieurs de ses anctres descendent de colons portugais tablis au Brsil, qui descendraient du roi Alphonse III. Its oldest extant building, Old Queen's (built 18091823), and the city block that forms the historic core of the university, Queen's Campus, retain their original names. [48] She was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. 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? Charlotte had organized apartments to be prepared and ready for the refugee royal family of France to occupy. And while we haven't seen many of them in recent . Photograph: Guardian. Fernando de Castro, Mcia de Vilhena de Sousa, Fontenoy, Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comt, France, Fernando (1 Senhor do Paul de Boquilobo) de Castro, 1 senhor do Paul do Boquilobo, Jean II de Neufchtel, seigneur de Montagu, Ferdinand de Neufchtel, Sire de Narnay, Montaigu, Carlos de Neufchastel, arzobispo de Basanzon, Philippe de Neufchtel, seigneur de Fontenoy, Jean de Neufchtel, Seigneur de Sant-Aubin, D. Garcia de Castro, senhor do Paul de Boquilobo. Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Four generations later, Sophie Albertina von Erbach married a Prince von Sachsen Hildburghausen. Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg Strelitz(May 19, 1744 Nov. 17, 1818). This page was last edited on 10 November 2022, at 17:13. For other uses, see Queen Charlotte (disambiguation). Wife of Jean II de Neufchtel, seigneur de Montagu In an age of discovery, when such travellers and explorers as Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks were constantly bringing home new species and varieties of plants, she ensured that the collections were greatly enriched and expanded. 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." When I was in germany knew this girl who lived in a castle and everything rich girl slumming you know but she took me into this room that had paintings of all her female family members the very first painting was of a dark skinned older woman sitting on what looked like a throne and she was dressed regally so I believe it and Maria got some major cool points after I even her spends a lot of that money she had I mean sense we was family and all lol. Fernando was married to Claude de Vergy (c. 1476 - 1512). [6] 2. Royalty & Race Equality as Prince Harry - Duke of Sussex marries African American Meghan Markle - Duchess of Sussex. 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