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An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

18 octobre 2026 par
An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

🇬🇧 Article en anglais

A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift” from an African king. Victoria would

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