Could Prince Charles join the Ku Klux Klan? More to the point, could Edward VIII have really qualified to be a Nazi? The answer is "No" because of Queen Charlotte who was partially black. Maybe Edward VIII knew it, maybe not. Charlotte, a large city in North Carolina, is named after her. She endured George III's insanity towards the end of his reign, often attributed to the inborn error of metabolism porphyria. After two of her sons, George and William, reigned as King without leaving a durable heir, her son Edward produced a durable child to carry on the Welf line - Alexandrina Victoria who became Queen in 1837. Queen Charlotte's Wikipedia article is here.

1765 or 1761 Queen Charlotte, when Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by Johann Georg Ziesenis (Royal Collection)

1761 Queen Charlotte Sophia figurine by George Stuart (Museum of Ventura County - Santa Paula, California USA)

1761 Sophie Charlotte Königin von Großbritannien und Irland, Kurfürstin bzw. Königin von Hannover by Jeremiah Meyer (Tansey Miniatures Foundation collection, Bomann-Museum - Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany)

Charlotte Sophia (1744–1818), Queen Consort of George III by Henry Robert Morland (University of Oxford - Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK)

1763 Sophie Charlotte by Ernst Heinrich Abel (Tansey Miniatures Foundation collection, Bomann-Museum - Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany)

1773 Queen Charlotte in court dress by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia)

1777 Queen Charlotte by Benjamin West (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA)

Queen Charlotte engraving by Thomas Ryder and Thomas Ryder Junior after Sir William Beechey (auctioned by Bonhams)

1812 Queen Charlotte holding a dog by William Beechey (Courtauld Gallery - London, Greater London, UK)

1781 Queen Charlotte Sophia by George Stuart after Thomas Gainsborough (Museum of Ventura County - Ventura, California, USA)

1782 Queen Charlotte enamel miniature done in 1804 by Henry Bone based on oval portrait by Gainsborough (Royal Collection)
