The Mildred Porteus Hodgson listed on Charles' Bowes-Lyon side is also on my mother's tree. Small world. Very glad to read Charles is supporting further research into slave history, an “appalling atrocity”.
That lineage is from the QEQM.
Yes, SirGyamfi, the Smith connected to slavery comes from Charles' grandmother, the Queen Mother, born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon whose father Claude's mother was Frances Dora Smith. Dora's family were directly connected to Virginia plantation slave owners. Unfortunately these same Virginia slave owners are also in my own ancestral lineage. This makes King Charles III and/or the royal family as responsible for slavery as I am. The Guardian article mentioned above has really stretched themselves. Unfortunately people will now believe that the royal family themselves were slave owners.
I especially like the photograph of Prince Charles rehearsing with friends at Trinity College.
But that’s from her line of the family not the BRF themselves and obviously it’s not a nice thing but the guardian is digging low for such information. This only affects to the main line of the BRF. I wonder why it’s just become a discovery to the guardian up till nowYes, SirGyamfi, the Smith connected to slavery comes from Charles' grandmother, the Queen Mother, born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon whose father Claude's mother was Frances Dora Smith. Dora's family were directly connected to Virginia plantation slave owners. Unfortunately these same Virginia slave owners are also in my own ancestral lineage. This makes King Charles III and/or the royal family as responsible for slavery as I am. The Guardian article mentioned above has really stretched themselves. Unfortunately people will now believe that the royal family themselves were slave owners.
I agree, and one of the Queen Mother's Smith ancestors was a first cousin of William Wilberforce so there were abolitionists in her family as well.
