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History reveals two curious details about Queen Charlotte Consort to George III: First, her official coronation portrait shows a woman with distinct mulatto features. Second, the Royal Physician to her granddaughter, Queen Victoria, wrote about her in his memoir: “She had the face of a true mulatto.” But if Queen Charlotte was a mulatto, who was the black man who fathered her and how did he manage to pull it off? And if Queen Victoria became the “Grandmother… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2010
Published: 2010-06-05
Word count: 15 words (≈ less than a minute)
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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:07:31 +0100
I read a book in the 60s by J.A> Rogers, called 100 amazing facts about the negro. He says that Queen Charlotte was mulatto, and that her mother had an African servant, apparantly a dwarf, and when Charlotte was born they attributed her dark appearance to the fact that her m,other kept "looking at" the servant during pregnancy. or it was due to her great liking for chocolate. I dont remember whether it was the doctor who said that. It also said that Beerhoven was negro, and that the king or prince referred to him as a blackamoor.