A royal birth. Her brother Adolf Frederick IV, who assumed their late father’s position as Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, signed off on Charlotte’s marriage contract with the British king. 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. But in the late 18th century Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III (1738-1820), may have been the country’s first multiracial royal. Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a small northern German duchy in the Holy Roman Empire, and Charlotte was born and brought up at Untere Schloss (Lower Castle) in Mirow.. In 1761, when she turned 17, Princess Sophia was betrothed — rather unexpectedly — to the King of England, George III. *Princess Sophie Charlotte was born on this date in 1744. Surely Helen Mirren played Charlotte in the film The Madness of King George and she was, last time I looked, white? Princess Charlotte was the only daughter of the Prince Regent, George IV, and Caroline of Brunswick. Princess Charlotte, the four-year-old daughter of Prince William and Kate Middleton, was seen sticking her tongue at viewers during The King's Cup regatta today. During the visit it was wonderful for George and Charlotte to get to play with children from Canadian military families. When King George III of Britain succeeded to the throne in 1760, he was 22 and unmarried and the 17 year old Princess Charlotte was an obvious choice for a wife.. She is the grandmother of Queen Victoria and the great-great-great-great-grandmother of the current Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Charlotte was the wife of King George III of England, and she is also regarded by many as England’s first black queen, although her possible mixed race heritage is not proven. Princess Charlotte also joined her family on The Duke and Duchess's official visit to Poland and Germany in July 2017. The UK royal family has released new photos of Princess Charlotte, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, delivering food to the vulnerable to mark her fifth birthday. Following The White Queen and The White Princess, comes The Spanish Princess, a show based on two of Gregory's best-selling historical fiction novels — The Constant Princess and The King… Philippa of Hainault was the first Black Queen of England.. Charlotte was the eighth child of the Prince of Mirow, Germany, Charles Louis Frederick, and his wife, Elisabeth Albertina of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Shortly after Charlotte was born in 1796, George and his wife separated, and the young princess grew up in the care of governesses, with very little attention from either of her parents. She was the second Black Queen of England.