Description
Sarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family. Offered by King Gezo of Dahomey as a gift to the Queen, she was taken to England. Spending part of her childhood there and part back in Africa, she married Captain James Davies in 1862 and they settled in their native continent, where she became a teacher and died of tuberculosis at Madeira in 1880. Her story has rarely been told before by earlier biographers, or even noticed in lives of the Queen. It makes one of the most unusual, not to say fascinating, episodes in the annals of the British Victorian court.
Author: John Van Der Kiste
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/17/2018
Pages: 134
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.29d
ISBN13: 9781719186377
ISBN10: 1719186375
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
Author: John Van Der Kiste
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/17/2018
Pages: 134
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.29d
ISBN13: 9781719186377
ISBN10: 1719186375
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
About the Author
John Van der Kiste is the author of over seventy books, including historical and royal biography, music, true history and crime, fiction and drama. He lives in Devon.
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