With features as conspicuously Negroid as they were reputed to be by her contemporaries, it is no wonder that the black community, both in the U.S. and throughout the British Commonwealth, have rallied around pictures of Queen Charlotte for generations. They have pointed out the physiological traits that so obviously identify the ethnic strain of the young woman who, at first glance, looks almost anomalous, portrayed as she usually is, in the sumptuous splendour of her coronation robes. To learn more click ± Royal Pages: ± ± 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ± Next ±

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. 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.

Descended from the warlike Vandal race, She still preserves that title in her face. Tho' shone their triumphs o'er Numidia's plain, And and Alusian fields their name retain; They but subdued the southern world with arms, She conquers still with her triumphant charms, O! born for rule, to whose victorious brow The greatest monarch of the north must bow.

For the initial work into Queen Charlotte's genealogy, a debt of gratitude is owed the History Department of McGill University. 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. Because of its "scientific" source, the most valuable of Dr. Hedley's references would, probably, be the one published in the autobiography of the Queen's personal physician, Baron Stockmar, where he described her as having "a true mulatto face."

Alenssandro Dei Medici
Alenssandro Dei Medici, Duke Of Florence Italy, son-in law of Emperor Charles V of Austria. Mother an Alkebu-lite (Black-African) father Cardinal L Medici, Medici Palace Italy. His Family commissioned most of the paintings of Michelangelo notably (The Last Supper). Marie Dei Medici Queen of France, descendant of Alenssandro Dei Medici, Duke Of Florence Italy.

1513 - Election of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, as Pope Leo X.
1515 - Triumphal entry of Leo X into Florence.
Marie Dei Medici Queen of France, descendant of Alenssandro Dei Medici, Duke Of Florence Italy. Source Bibliotheque Nationale Paris. Below Alenssandro Dei Medici, Duke Of Florence Italy.

Phillipa Of Hainult When the time came for Edward to marry his mother, Queen Isabella would opt for a match with the house of Hainault. Edward was married to Philippa of Hainault, daughter of William Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand. To learn more click here