[BGHater]

ping.

Sigh.

This one is gonna go political in about two seconds.

[JoeProBono]

[Tax-chick]

a historian called Mario de Valdes y Cocom. He argues that her features, as seen in royal portraits, were conspicuously African, and contends that they were noted by numerous contemporaries. 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 noblewoman nine generations removed, whose ancestry she traces from the 13th-century ruler Alfonso III and his lover Madragana, whom Valdes takes to have been a Moor and thus a black African.

What a bunch of claptrap. Racist claptrap, too ... the fact that she was ugly "proves" a distant African ancestor? Academics will make up *anything* to get published!

[eastsider]

That’s a man, baby ...

[wardaddy]

Black Portugese are not negroid, they are Moors....north African Arab descended.

crazy, who writes this stuff?

[neb52]

Ramsey embellished her “mulatto face”. Other paintings do not. I think Ramsey had an agenda.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Guilty !

[WellyP]

What is the German translation that means, Don’t ask, Don’t tell!

[Cowboy Bob]

This must be from the same people who claim that Cleopatra is African!

BTW, the Russians consider the people from the Caucasus to be "Black". That does not mean that are African!

[mjp]

Claims of African ancestry

[mainestategop]

I know a guy who is a history buff and he said that a lot of European royalty are of Black African descent.

It comes from the Medici family. One of the men, I think Lorenzo or one of his sons had a son from a black servant. This son became head of the Medici family and from his lineage are famous royals including, Queen Cathrine of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, just to name a few. A lot of Hapsburgs and Medicis and a few other dynasties are connected through this lineage.

I hear a lot of blacks saying that they come from Kings and Queens. Well... They weren't kidding.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Trust the Grauniad to get it wrong wrt to the Royals by calling Queen Charlotte the ‘Queen of England’. She was not the Queen of England. The Kingdom of England has not existed since 1707. The last Queen of England was Queen Anne, who after she signed the 1707 Act of Union Became the first Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain....

[lilylangtree]

Google “Queen Charlotte” and you see 4 pictures. Enlarge the pictures and she definitely DOES NOT look black.

[nonsporting]

Not out of Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Impy]

I hope the King had a hot mistress.

[SunkenCiv]

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Celebrating 276 Years of Bowling Green
NY Times | March 12, 2009 | Sewell Chan
Posted on 03/12/2009 11:22:15 AM PDT by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2205241/posts

[ZULU]

Balderdash.

If she had an African Ancestor, it was the “FAfrican Eve” (sarcasm).

[afraidfortherepublic]

Charlotte, 1761

[Lancey Howard]