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Queen Charlotte with her Two Children, 1765, by Allan Ramsay

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. 

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. Ramsey was an anti-slavery intellectual of his day. He also married the niece of Lord Mansfield, the English judge whose 1772 decision was the first in a series of rulings that finally ended slavery in the British Empire.

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    Black royalty does EXIST!!!
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    Also know that the current queen, Queen Elizabeth the II gave a shout out to her African and Asian ancestors at the...
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