Philippa also is known to be the “most royal” Queen-Consort of England due to four of her great-great-grandfathers all having been kings (of France, Aragon, Naples and Hungary). Some historians do believe that she was Britain’s first Black queen and that her descendants, including Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, ... whose mother is Black … Sara Forbes Bonetta, (born Omoba Aina; 1843 – 15 August 1880), was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people in West Africa who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey and later became the slave of King Ghezo of Dahomey. Realizing that her daughter had a big chance of inheriting the English throne from her uncles (George IV and William IV), Victoria set out to use what historians like to call the “Kensington System” to … Queen Victoria’s mother maintained a tight grip on the young Princess Victoria. But scratch the surface of the official PR job and you'll find a cesspit of calamity and controversy bubbling beneath. The eldest of her thirteen children was Edward of Woodstock, known as “The Black Prince”. ... in new Victoria's Secret campaign for Mother's Day Dad is The Walking Dead's ... wows in black … She would clothe herself in black up until the end of her own life some four decades later. To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley. This chart of Queen Victoria's family tree comes from Tout's An Advanced History of Great Britain (1909) See Bibliography). Queen Victoria's Children starts on BBC2 on January 1 at 9pm. From Princess Sophia To Queen Charlotte Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 marked the refulgent patriotic zenith of the British Empire. Click on image to enlarge it. — Jacqueline Banerjee. Tout, T. F. An Advanced History of Great Britain : From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria with the five surviving children of her daughter, Princess Alice, dressed in mourning clothing for their mother and their sister Princess Marie in early 1879. But in the late 18th century Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III (1738-1820), may have been the country’s first multiracial royal. Bibliography. Here's the messed up truth of Queen Victoria. She is the grandmother of Queen Victoria and the great-great-great-great-grandmother of the current Queen Elizabeth II. Being Queen Victoria was a pretty sweet deal, what with all the wealth, power, palaces, and devoted subjects across an empire. If true, it would make Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the mother of two British kings and the grandmother of Queen Victoria, the British Royal Family’s first multiracial member. Some historians believe she possessed African ancestry, descended from a Portuguese royal and his Moorish mistress. Charlotte passed on her mixed-race heritage to her granddaughter, Queen Victoria, and to Britain’s present-day monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.