Was This Great Britain's First Black Queen?

        

           

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Queen Charlotte Sophia was a direct descendant of Magarita de Castro y Sousa a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. She was the wife of the English King George III for over 50 years.

 
Because of varying portraits of the queen, her physical appearance and her ethnicity was always a debate. But a poem penned to her on her wedding day and the coronation that followed proved that she was indeed black/mulatto. The poem below:

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.

Queen Victoria was her granddaughter. Two centuries later, during Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, the Royal Household referred to the present queen's African bloodline in a white paper it published defending her position as head of the Commonwealth. Every knowledgeable Briton knows of the present Queen's African ancestry. Yet none considers her (or her ancestors Queen Victoria or Queen Charlotte, for that matter) to be "Black."

In the movie, The Madness of King George, Queen Charlotte is played by Helen Mirren furthermore disregarding her true physical appearance.