Saturday, 8 October 2011

Mixed Race Britannia

The BBC has missed a trick.

The Queen is descended from the "negroid" Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. And via Elizabeth of York with her Moorish antecedents (back through the Kings of Portugal and Castile, to the old Moorish Kings of Seville), the Queen is also descended from Muhammad. There is no doubt about any of this, and it would have made a superb television programme.

Queen Charlotte, after whom the city in North Carolina is named, is shown clearly with light skin but African facial features in contemporaneous portraiture, and was spoken of as "negroid" without any self-consciousness during her lifetime.

She was descended from the part-black Royal House of Portugal, a member of which, Catherine of Braganza who was the consort of Charles II but from whom no one is descended (unlike her husband...), is shown looking just like a mixed-raced Briton of today in a portrait displayed in one of the private areas of Durham Castle.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 October 2011 at 18:09

    Good post, even if you do feel the need to mention that you have been in the bits of Castle not open to the public. Then again, you won't anything by that. That's just you. Good post.

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  2. David Lindsay8 October 2011 at 18:21

    Thank you. I think.

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  3. Anonymous10 October 2011 at 02:50

    Monarchy is a good antidote to racism. Just look at how much the Nazis hated the Habsburgs for being the "mongrel" rulers of a "mongrel" empire.

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  4. David Lindsay10 October 2011 at 16:11

    Numerous German, Magyar and Slavic names are still found throughout the former Austria-Hungary (Woodrow Wilson’s real, because Catholic, target in 1917), the multiethnic ethos of which infused with Catholic Social Teaching was not unlike British social democracy’s patriotic allegiance to the Union and the Commonwealth, or the organisation of disparate ethnic groups around and by means of the New Deal.

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  5. Anonymous21 October 2011 at 12:00

    >>>The Queen is descended from the "negroid" Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. And via Elizabeth of York with her Moorish antecedents (back through the Kings of Portugal and Castile, to the old Moorish Kings of Seville), the Queen is also descended from Muhammad. There is no doubt about any of this, and it would have made a superb television programme.<<<

    This is just garbage and isn't true at all.

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  6. David Lindsay21 October 2011 at 19:18

    No, this is just fact.

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