We are delighted you joined us in rediscovering Queen Charlotte's resplendent legacy through the kaleidoscopic lens of technology. This experiment harnesses AI to reexamine Charlotte's visual inheritance seeds compelling "what ifs" about the swirling strands of Britain's first queen of colour. Yet revelations matter little without the insights you brought. Your enthusiasm illuminates why Charlotte still dazzles centuries later, how her mystique continues to be reinterpreted - whether in Bridgerton's lavish embrace or speculative art kindled by tech's imagination. So, where should we let the currents of history guide us next? Which forgotten royal icon shall we memorialize anew through virtual time travel? A fusion between past curiosity and future innovation awaits. Until then, thank you from our crew across the ages for setting Charlotte's story alight once more.
@NatalieCampbell-rk5ty
8 ай бұрын
You completely missed the mark where painters were told in that era to paint the skin lighter. Or the newspaper cartoons from that time period that made fun of the size of her nose or the texture of her hair. What more evidence do you need? Yes, she had African roots! But why is this even a discussion???
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
8 ай бұрын
@@NatalieCampbell-rk5ty Interesting evidence, and the different evidence on both side is why we explore and discuss this and other interesting question in History!
@jayargonauts
3 ай бұрын
She was a white woman of European ancestry. Not black, biracial or mixed race.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
@jayargonauts
3 ай бұрын
@@MeetingHistoryTimelinesThere’s a whole body of evidence in the Royal Archives which people seem to conveniently overlook or just ignore completely. The queen was never referred to as being black or biracial or exhibiting such characteristics in her lifetime. Even in satire the least for giving medium of the age she was lampooned as an ugly white woman. Furthermore to think King George III would have married a women of questionable ancestry in an age when ancestry meant everything is ludicrous. The black ancestry theory is bogus and based entirely on one pseudo historian’s subjective opinion
@gilraenn29
3 ай бұрын
If she was as dark in the Bridgerton's tv shows. she would not have been accepted.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
@donniethompson8254
2 ай бұрын
She wasn't dark and she still wasn't accepted
@jeanettejohnson8117
22 күн бұрын
You're wrong at that time in history. There was no race issue. There were a lot of black aristocratic families. If remember correctly, her great great grandfather married a black woman, and her great grandfather married a black woman.
@S-bz1hq
16 күн бұрын
Bravo Sir !!! Bravo!!! Nailed it!!!
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
16 күн бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@1964_AMU
5 ай бұрын
Spanish nobles who have Mauresque roots have Germanic roots. The Wisigoths and Vandals invaded the North of Morocco and a part of the Mediterranean coast. Nobles among these were whites. The Queen could look like a bit Spanish or Algerian but she was white.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
5 ай бұрын
It's fascinating to learn about the diverse roots of Spanish nobles!
@stacyjpoliticscommunityfai359
3 ай бұрын
Ramsay was a very well respected British Painter and he was paid a sizeable income by the Aristocracy for his very accurate depictions of the subject matter. So I will rely on Ramsay's paintings and what was true to the person that was being painted. It could have been very easy for them to have the painter replaced, remember they were the most powerful nation on the planet why would they not want the painting to depict a message that opposes the crown? Now observing Queen Charlottes blood relative the Duke, I'm even more convinced that they definitely had African roots.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
3 ай бұрын
That's an interesting perspective on Ramsay's work and the potential influence of the aristocracy on his paintings.
@chrisapperley2616
3 ай бұрын
😂😂 nope
@chrisapperley2616
2 ай бұрын
@@donniethompson8254 yes but you’re missing something her parents are white peoples plus there is written evidence of her having Lilly white skin! You are in denial Netflix fiction
@chrisapperley2616
2 ай бұрын
@@donniethompson8254 you are just convincing yourself something that isn’t true the question is why Did this particular painter painter this way? But it’s been researched and debunked! It’s called fiction for a reason people keep telling you this
@donniethompson8254
2 ай бұрын
Indeed. Plus, the part everyone seems to overlook...the only paintings approved by George and Charlotte are Ramsay's. They wrote letters enthusiastically stating that his paintings were the most accurate portrayals of themselves. Charlotte looks like many passè blanc people I know. Why would Ramsay paint the king as lily white and his wife differently? Her skin may have been light or white complected but he deliberately painted Charlotte with textured hair and not silky European hair for one. He would have risked his career, reputation and possibly, his life. I believe Charlotte's genealogy to be more complex given the Moor influence on Europe for almost 1000 years...there was a lot of romantic swirling going on. And when the Moors fell out of favour with Europeans, they were basically erased from Europe's narrative. So there would have been alot of individuals who for their own safety denied any African ancestry and chose to pass as white. Individuals who would have portrayed themselves as fair as possible thru white face powder (which was the fashion) and in portraits. White isn't just a skin colour but a social class/status. I think that in order for these people to live freely...they just pretended to fit in and kept marrying whiter people for generations. Folks will argue that there's no genetic relationship after a few generations but if one looks closely, even Elizabeth II bore some very interesting non-white features (as did one of her other grammies (Mary of Teck). There's no amount of inbreeding amongst white people that produces African features unless it's already there. In the official portraits above, all of Charlotte's family bore textured hair. It's interesting that the AI images generated this family with silky relaxed hair textures consistent with Caucasians and then asks what do we think?😂 White skin is not unique to Caucasian people...there are many Asians, Hispanics and mixed racial groups who bare white skin. It's said Charlotte had blue eyes, but so do many black people like former Miss America Vanessa Williams, and her fellow actors Jesse Williams and Michael Ealy and quite a few in my own family. For reference, Charlotte is also my very distant cousin (6th cousin, 12 times removed to be exact) so I'm highly vested in this conversation. The British media othered her and made it known that she was not like them and bullied her nonstop with racial tropes such as monkey portrayals and said her entire family looked like orangutans. I genuinely ask, what other white queen has ever been called the N word publicly in the media? None. Because Charlotte wasn't Caucasian white and she didn't appear Caucasian white to her peers. Britain was mostly illiterate and the infrastructure highly undeveloped (so unless she left her home and ventured about London) during her time and there was no internet or tv...only newspapers. The only people who would have actually seen Charlotte in person would have been the folks in her social class and her palace staff. The racist bullying of Queen Charlotte began with other royals and the aristocracy...some who owned the newspapers, owned slaves and spread their vicious venom regarding her obviously percieved racial features. Perhaps to calm the public, later portraits were produced that gave Charlotte a more Caucasian aesthetic...especially after her bestie, Marie Antoinette was beheaded. Across the pond, Americans deemed her as "Britain's Negro Queen" during the War Of 1812. Charlotte was the reason many enslaved American blacks joined the war effort, remaining loyal, on behalf of England. Also, Charlottesville VA is named for her (and not its racist slave holding founder) because of Charlotte's anti-slavery campaign. Jefferson founded the city but it was named after someone who would have been his nemesis 😂😂😂 Now why would a "white" queen be vested in abolishing slavery given Britain's past financial involvement with chattel enslavement of humans? Name one. I believe Charlotte was vested because maybe she saw some resemblance in herself to those people. Charlotte lives on as the most venerated queen in history having the most towns, cities, villages, islands, counties named in her honour. Only her granddaughter Queen Victoria, comes a distant second. I think it's odd that during her lifetime, Charlotte was deemed not white enough. And in modern times, white people are claiming she IS white😂🤦🏽♀️#makeitmakesense #FunFact, Buckingham Palace was George's gift to Charlotte. It is HER palace, her home. As was Frogmore Cottage.
@nayadedecumbe7407
12 күн бұрын
Yeah, and my DNA indicates 0.1% North African ancestors probably 500 years ago. The rest is just European white
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
10 күн бұрын
That's interesting! DNA can reveal so much about our ancestry, even the tiniest percentages can tell a fascinating story about our heritage.
@BalticNixe1234
3 ай бұрын
If Queen Charlotte was black, then WWI was run by POCs. Her niece, Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-(Strelitz) Queen of Prussia, was not only considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, she was also exposed to massive negative propaganda by Napoleon. If there had been even the slightest suspicion of African descent, Napoleon would have exploited it. He didn't, that says it all. You should think every hypothesis through to the end and not stop at the beginning just because it fits into your world view.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your perspective and insights on Queen Charlotte and Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-(Strelitz)! It's important to consider all angles of historical narratives.
@Anya878A
Ай бұрын
Mixed race, culture and heritage! You see the power of love ❤️
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
Ай бұрын
The King and Queen did love each other
@darrylhenry5839
10 күн бұрын
She was white German. As were her parents, Grandparents, Great Grandparents etc etc.. she was not mixed race or bi-racial
@Anya878A
10 күн бұрын
@darrylhenry5839 yh OK of course she was
@darrylhenry5839
10 күн бұрын
@@Anya878A her lineage is well documented (it goes back 15+ generations) every ancestor listed is European. That's 100% factual.
@Anya878A
10 күн бұрын
@@darrylhenry5839 yh ok
@aredmckin6716
7 ай бұрын
Such a silly game
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
7 ай бұрын
??? Game ???
@paperroses7615
9 ай бұрын
Nooooo! Im a decendent of Queen Victoria and my DNA says Nooo! It would have shown up by Helix Labs even down to the smallest percentage! And Abraham Lincoln isn't either he's my relative on both sides and maternal DNA! So sick of this! DNA speaks Mine sheds the light!
@kiarimarie
9 ай бұрын
That's not how it works. You inherit half of each your parents' DNA and even if Victoria managed to inherit the small amount of black ancestry Charlotte is rumored to have, it's extremely plausible you did not.
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
9 ай бұрын
These are interesting findings that you have!
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
9 ай бұрын
I believe that was why the Historians indicated that the current suggestion of a distant moorish ancestress was just too far away!!
@leenam.4578
9 ай бұрын
There is a historian, an academic, who has traced Queen Charlotte's African ancestor, however, it was so far in the past that no one in the 20th/21st century would have any traces in their DNA. Re: the contemporary portraits of her, genetically Negroid features tend to dominate.
@donniethompson8254
2 ай бұрын
10:08 Lmao. Kenneth MacAlpin, 1st King of Scotland is my 32nd grandfather and Charlotte is my 6th cousin, 12 times removed. That makes me related to most royals. I'm black. Pretty sure I'm not the only one. It's pretty ignorant to think the royal bloodline is lily white.
@cabdaly
9 ай бұрын
thyroid problems?
@MeetingHistoryTimelines
9 ай бұрын
That's an interesting perspective. Historical accounts do suggest that certain physical characteristics of Queen Charlotte and her siblings might have been attributed to health conditions like thyroid problems. These factors can indeed affect physical appearance and might have contributed to the ongoing debate about her ancestry.
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