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| Sofie Charlotte, Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz 1 2 | |
| Birth: | 19 May 1744 in Mirow Church, Mirow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany |
| Death: | 17 Nov 1818 in Kew Palace, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Karl I, Ludwig Friedrich, Pri & Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz b. 23 Feb 1708 in Strelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany |
| Mother: | Albertina Elisabeth, Princess of Saxe Hildburghausen b. 3 Aug 1713 in Hildburghausen, Saxe-Meiningen, Thuringia |
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| Changed: 8 Aug 2004 1 2 |
| Christening: 20 May 1744 Mirow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany |
| Burial: 2 Dec 1818 Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
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| George III, William Frederick Guelph, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hanover (Husband) b. 4 Jun 1738 in Norfolk House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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| Marriage: | 8 SEP 1761 in Saint James Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
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 George IV, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 12 Aug 1762 in Saint James Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
 Frederick Augustus, Prince of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 16 Aug 1763 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- William IV, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover, etc b. 21 Aug 1765 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 29 Sep 1766 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent b. 2 Nov 1767 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Augusta Sophia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 8 Nov 1768 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Hannover, Pss of Great Britain & Ireland & Hannover b. 22 May 1770 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Ernst August I, King of Hannover, Duke of Cumberland b. 5 Jun 1771 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex b. 27 Jan 1773 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge b. 24 Feb 1774 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Mary, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 25 Apr 1776 in Queen's House, Saint James, London, United Kingdom
- Sophia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 3 Nov 1777 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Octavius, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland b. 23 Feb 1779 in Queen's House, Saint James, London, United Kingdom
- Alfred, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland b. 22 Sep 1780 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Amelia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 7 Aug 1783 in The Lodge, Windsor, United Kingdom
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Individual:
Sophia Charlotte, fifth and youngest daughter of Duke Charles Louis Fre
derick of Mecklenburg Strelitz and Elizabeth Albertin of Saxe Hildburghausen. Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz; Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz. Appears to be "monkey-faced" in many of her portraits.
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Queen Charlotte had some African ancestors, though not very close. The
pivotal connection is Margarita de Castro, a Spaniard who married, in 1 438,
Jean de Neuchatel, Seigneur de Montagu et de Reynel (d. 1489), a Burgun dian
nobleman. Their descendants include most of the Protestant Royals, suc h as
Queen Charlotte:
Margarita -> Ferdinand -> Antonia -> Margaret -> George -> George Alber t ->
George Louis -> Sophia Albertine -> Albertine Elisabeth -> Charlotte
Those of you who are familiar with European Royal genealogies will see t hat
Charlotte actually has multiple descents from Margarita, and this is on ly
one of them. For that matter, Charlotte's husband George III is also
descended from Margarita:
Margarita -> Ferdinand -> Antonia -> Margaret -> George -> Margaret ->
Joachim Ernst -> Sophia Margaret -> Johann Friedrich -> Caroline Wilhel mine
-> Frederick Lewis -> George III
Margarita has multiple descents from an African mistress of Affonso III ,
King of Portugal (d. 1279). Here's one of the descents:
Margarita <- Mecia <- Affonso <- Vasco <- Martim Affonso II <- Martim
Affonso I de Sousa "Chicorro"
Martim Affonso I was a bastard son of Affonso III by his African mistre ss,
Magdalena Gil.
Is this descent sufficient to account for the (allegedly) Negro appeara nce
of Queen Charlotte? I don't think so, but some others have made the cl aim.
alt.talk.royalty
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"With features as conspicuously Negroid as they were reputed to be by h er
contemporaries, it is no wonder that the black community, both in the U .S. and
throughout the British Commonwealth, have rallied around pictures of Qu een
Charlotte for generations. They have pointed out the physiological trai ts that
so obviously identify the ethnic strain of the young woman who, at firs t
glance, looks almost anomalous, portrayed as she usually is, in the sum ptuous
splendour of her coronation robes.
Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was d irectly
descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portu guese
Royal House. The riddle of Queen Charlotte's African ancestry was solve d as a
result of an earlier investigation into the black magi featured in 15th c entury
Flemish paintings. Two art historians had suggested that the black magi m ust
have been portraits of actual contemporary people (since the artist, wi thout
seeing them, would not have been aware of the subtleties in colouring a nd
facial bone structure of quadroons or octoroons which these figures inv ariably
represented) Enough evidence was accumulated to propose that the models f or the
black magi were, in all probability, members of the Portuguese de Sousa f amily.
(Several de Sousas had in fact traveled to the Netherlands when their c ousin,
the Princess Isabella went there to marry the Grand Duke, Philip the Go od of
Burgundy in the year 1429.)
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 inbr eeding
was already minuscule, thus explaining the Queen's unmistakable African
appearance ..."
alt.talk.royalty
Also:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/royalfamil y .html
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- Title: Family Search: http://www.familysearch.org
- Title: internet
Page: http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/greatbritain.html
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