Sara Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. 1862 [1343×2048]
Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880), Yoruba princess of the Egbado clan. Born Omoba Aina, she was orphaned and enslaved by the King of Dahomey, who gifted her to a British captain on a mission to convince him to leave the slave trade. Taken to the UK, she became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria
TIL Queen Victoria had a royal goddaughter from West Africa named Sara Forbes Bonetta, who was ensIaved and intended to die in a human sacrifice by King Ghezo of Dahomey, and rescued by a British naval captain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
Cynthia Erivo to star in biopic of Sara Forbes Bonetta, Yoruba royalty rescued from slavery and ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria deadline.com/2020/12/cynt…
TIL of Sara Forbes Bonetta, a West African who was orphaned, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
[History] African Industrialist pioneer James Pinson Labulo Davies and His Wife Sara Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba noblewoman and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. 1862
African Industrialist pioneer James Pinson Labulo Davies and His Wife Sara Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba noblewoman and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. 1862 [1072 x 872]
African Industrialist pioneer James Pinson Labulo Davies and His Wife Sara Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba noblewoman and goddaughter to Queen Victoria in 1862
Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter Sarah Forbes Bonetta, 1843 - 1880. Born into a Royal, African dynasty she was taken to England and “gifted” to Queen Victoria, from one royal family to another. Spending her life between the British royal household and her homeland in Africa.
African Industrialist pioneer James Pinson Labulo Davies and His Wife Sara Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba noblewoman and goddaughter to Queen Victoria in 1862
TIL that Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom had an African goddaughter. Sara Forbes Bonetta was saved from becoming a human sacrifice by a captain in the Royal Navy who convinced her captors to make the young girl "a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
Lady Sara Forbes Bonetta Davies was a West African Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in inter-tribal warfare at the age of eight and subsequently captured by slave-raiders. She was rescued by a Captain of the British Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the African princess who became Queen Victoria's goddaughter, pictured in 1862.
TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter. blackhistorymonth.org.uk/…
Sarah Forbes Bonetta: from captive to British celebrity artuk.org/discover/storie…
TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta[Omoda Aina]. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present and would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter. blackhistorymonth.org.uk/…
TIL Sarah Forbes Bonetta was a Yoruba princess from West Africa who was orphaned and enslavved at age 5 by nearby Dahomey invaders who intended to kill her in a human sacrifice. She became Queen Victoria's goddaughter after a British Royal Navy captain convinced Dahomey's King to spare her life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
Portrait Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria's Nigerian goddaughter by artist Hannah Uzor
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Yoruba princess who became Queen Victoria's goddaughter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
[todayilearned] TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter. blackhistorymonth.org.uk/…
Queen Victoria's God-daughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, with her husband Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies - pictured here circa 1862.
Portrait Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria's Nigerian goddaughter by artist Hannah Uzor
Photograph of Mrs Victoria Randle, with her two children, taken in a studio in London, 1901. Mrs Randle was the daughter of Sally Bonetta Forbes, who was adopted by Queen Victoria in 1848.
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Goddaughter of Queen Victoria. 1850. [625x461]
Sarah Forbes Bonetta: the Captive African Princess Gifted to Queen Victoria. helenrappaport.com/queen-…
Photograph of Mrs Victoria Randle, with her two children, taken in a studio in London, 1901. Mrs Randle was the daughter of Sally Bonetta Forbes, who was adopted by Queen Victoria in 1848. [1296 x 2000]
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a West African Egbado princess of the Yoruba people who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery and, in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. 1860s. (623x438)
Photograph of Mrs Victoria Randle, with her two children, taken in a studio in London, 1901. Mrs Randle was the daughter of Sally Bonetta Forbes, who was adopted by Queen Victoria in 1848.
Photograph of Mrs Victoria Randle, with her two children, taken in a studio in London, 1901. Mrs Randle was the daughter of Sally Bonetta Forbes, who was adopted by Queen Victoria in 1848.
[History] Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Goddaughter of Queen Victoria. 1850.
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Goddaughter of Queen Victoria. 1850.
Sarah Forbes Bonetta by Camille Silvy, 1862 [624 × 800] npg.org.uk/collections/se…
TIL of Sara Bonetta, born in West Africa in 1843. After being orphaned by inter-tribal warfare and sold into slavery, she was liberated and miraculously became the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
Sarah Forbes Bonetta by Camille Silvy, 1862 [624 × 800] /u/marquis_of_chaos npg.org.uk/collections/se…
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