Posts in category Royalty

The Image of Cleopatra

October 3, 2020 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty Click on the article and interview below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/also_in_the_news/7945333.stm remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Buried city and 17 pyramids revealed by satellite An infra-red satellite image reveals the pattern of streets and houses in the buried ancient city […]

All change at longleat docuseries

August 17, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Series about one of the country’s most extraordinary aristocratic families, and the people who work for them. Britain’s first black marchioness.

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Princess: Ariana Austin Makonnen

February 25, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Princess Ariana Austin Makonnen of Ethiopia is an American writer, arts manager and philanthropist. She is a member of the Ethiopian imperial family and the House of Solomon through her marriage to Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen, the great-grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Mr. Makonnen, known as Prince Yoel, is the 35-year-old great-grandson of Haile Selassie, […]

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Top 10 African Queens

February 24, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Nefertiti Gudit Amina Amanishaketo Sheba Yaa Asantewaa Nzinga Amanitore Tiye Amanirenas Support his channel https://www.patreon.com/HomeTeamHistory

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Nigerian Royal Queens and Princesses

February 22, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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Model: Adwoa Aboah

July 20, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Nationality: British Ethnicity: Her father is African and her mother is British She appeared on the cover of British Vogue. She has also been on the cover of American Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Poland and i-D. In 2017, the fashion industry voted her as Model of the Year for models.com. ADWOA ABOAH International Model Of […]

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Ancient Grooming

July 8, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

The practice of grooming dates back at least 40,000 years. When archaeologists opened the tomb of King Tutankhamun they found a pot of three-thousand-year-old moisturizer made from animal fat and perfumed resin. In the British Museum there is a woman’s cosmetics box, also from Egypt, dating to about 1400B.C. Inside it are an ivory comb, […]

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African Princess: Yennenga the Svelte of Burkina Faso

January 4, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Yennenga is considered by the Mossi to be the mother of their empire and many statues of her can be found in the capital city of Burkina Faso. She was a beautiful and beloved princess who from the age of 14, fought in battle for her father against the neighboring Malinkés. She was a famous […]

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Queen Of Nubia & Egypt: Naparaye

December 21, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Naparaye was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Naparaye was the daughter of King Piye and the sister-wife of King Taharqa. -Illustration by Sara Winters She held several titles: Great of Grace, Great of Praises, Sweet of Love, (Great?) King’s Wife, Lady of the Two Lands and King’s Sister. Naparaye’s name is known from her tomb in el-Kurru (Ku. 3). At […]

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Was Queen Cleopatra Bi-Racial?

December 10, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

A controversial subject indeed. Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty, was part African? According to two reports her father was Greek and her mother was African. Remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that her mother had an “African” skeleton. Princess Arsinoe had an African mother is a […]

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Another Nubian Queen in Egypt: Pebatjma

November 30, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Spouse: Pharaoh Kashta of the 25th Dynasty. Queen Pebatjma titles are: King’s Wife and King’s sister. Mother of God’s Wife of Amun Amenirdis I and (adoptive?) mother of Queen Peksater. Mentioned on Cairo Statue 42198. Nubians are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to present-day Sudan and southern Egypt who originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile […]

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Engaged

November 27, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Prepare for a royal wedding! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have confirmed their engagement. In a statement released from Kensington Palace on Monday, Harry and Meghan confirmed the news. “His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle. The wedding will take place in […]

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Another Ruling Queen: Shanakdakhete of the Kush Kingdom

November 24, 2017 2 Comments Written by sola rey

She is the earliest known ruling African queen of ancient Nubia. She is said to have ruled with full power in the Meroë Empire. She is also said to have ruled without a king. It is also stated that as queen she played a significant role in the Meroitic religion. Shanakdakheto’s name is inscribed as […]

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Queen Consort Of Nubia & Egypt: Tabiry

November 18, 2017 2 Comments Written by sola rey

Tabiry was the daughter of Alara of Nubia and his wife Kasaqa and the wife of King Piye. She held some interesting titles: Main King’s Wife, first of her majesty (hmt niswt ‘at tpit n hm.f) (the only other queen to hold the Main King’s Wife title was Nefertiti) and “The Great One of the Foreign Country” (ta-aat-khesut). She […]

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Ex-Model & Dancer: Baroness Monica Von Neumann

November 2, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Nationality: (Detroit, Michigan) American Ethnicity: African American She studied dance at Roland Dupree Dance Academy. Ms. Von Neumann is the first African-American woman to gain this honorable (Baroness) title. She has traveled the world and lived an astonishing life; a life about which most can only dream. Baroness Monica Von Neumann was married to the late Austrian […]

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Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter: Sara Forbes Bonetta

October 15, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Queen Victoria was impressed by the young princess’s exceptional intelligence, and had Sara raised as her goddaughter in the British middle class. Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 – 15 August 1880) was a West African Egbado omoba of Yoruba royalty who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a […]

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Queen Amanirenas Of Kush In Nubia

October 11, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena) was one of the greatest kandakes, or queen mothers, who ruled over the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush in Nubia, (a region from Southern Egypt to Northern Sudan). Amanirenas was the second of several “Qore and Kandake’s” (the title given to ruling Queens). She reigned over the kingdom between 40 BC to […]

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Prince Harry’s Girlfriend: Model & Actress Meghan Markle

September 26, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Nationality: American Ethnicity: Her father is Caucasian (Dutch and Irish descent) & mother is African-American. Markle has been in a relationship with Prince Harry since July 2016. In September 2017, during an interview with Vanity Fair, Markle spoke in public for the first time about her love for Prince Harry saying, “We’re two people who are really happy and in […]

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Lipsticks In Ancient Times

September 24, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Modern fashion could not be what it is today without the presence of lipsticks. Lipsticks were with us for thousands of years, and they will remain with as long fashion exists. Since the dawn of prehistoric times, humans always had the need to distinguish themselves among others. Clothes, shoes, tools, jewelry and cosmetics were first of […]

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Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his second wife Maria of Antioch

May 11, 2017 1 Comment Written by sola rey

Italy (c. 1150) Found in the Vatican Library, Rome. Artist: Unknown Manuel I Komnenos was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. His reign saw the last flowering of the Komnenian restoration, during which the Byzantine Empire had seen a […]

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Monaco’s Baroness Cecile de Massy

April 16, 2017 2 Comments Written by sola rey

Baronness Cecile de Massy, wife of Baron Christian Louis de Massy, son of the late Princess Antoinette of Monaco, and cousin of Prince Albert of Monaco. She is of Caribbean descent. Cecile is the highest ranked black person in Monaco. She is the patroness of Ladies Lunch Monaco. Among its activities, she is also Vice-President […]

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King Tut’s Life Size Guard Statue

March 31, 2017 1 Comment Written by sola rey

One of the two life sized statues guards Tutankhamen, which stood on each side of the sealed entrance to the burial chamber of the tomb 3,000 years ago. – Egyptian Pharaoh In 2008, a team began DNA research on Tutankhamen and the mummified remains of other members of his family. The results from the DNA […]

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Shrine Head from Nigeria, West Africa

March 30, 2017 1 Comment Written by sola rey

She is a beauty queen and a favorite of many museum visitors, her tranquil demeanor and introspective gaze expressing what the Yoruba people consider a person’s inner spirituality. Crowned by a simple ridged headdress, this royal portrait head was part of a larger figure now lost. Her neck is creased as though with fat, a […]

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Copper Statues Of Ancient Egyptian King Pepi I

February 23, 2017 1 Comment Written by sola rey

Pepi I’s reign was marked by aggressive expansion into Nubia, the spread of trade to far-flung areas such as Lebanon and the Somalian coast, but also the growing power of the nobility. One of the king’s officials named Weni fought in Asia on his behalf. Pepi’s mortuary complex, Mennefer Pepy, eventually became the name for […]

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Science Fiction& Fantasy Art of Ancient Egypt III to inspire

February 7, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? –Egyptian Pharaoh by Chris Ducas Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of ancient Egypt in the lower Nile […]

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Gold & the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia

February 5, 2017 1 Comment Written by sola rey

In antiquity, Nubians believed that gold was a sacred material with protective powers, so jewelry makers used the metal frequently. Double Hathor head earring, Nubian, Meroitic Period, 90 AD. This is only a fraction of the ancient Nubian accessories. Gold earring Nubian, Meroitic Period Thousands of years ago, Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt made up […]

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Nubian’s right to return to their ancestral homeland?

January 13, 2017 2 Comments Written by sola rey

Some Nubians self-identify as Africans, Afro-Arabs, Nubian-Egyptians, or simply Nubians Nubians are descendants of the ancient African civilization of Kush, which was situated between what is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan, known for its famed “Black Pharaohs” and pyramids. Nubians in Egypt today are still influenced by the changes of the initial Arab invasions, […]

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West African Kings & Gold

December 6, 2016 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Historian David Olusoga uncovers a history that is as surprising as it is revealing. The English had one of their great bursts of fascination with this continent and its people ultimately it wasn’t the Portuguese the English had to win over but the local (African) kings. We know that the first English traders who […]

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Sungbo’s Eredo Defensive Walls From West Africa circa 1000 AD?

December 5, 2016 1 Comment Written by sola rey

The jewel in the African civil engineering crown. They enclose an area the size of Greater London, or 30 times bigger than Manhattan. One of the largest monuments in sub-Saharan Africa: a 100-mile-long wall and moat whose construction began a millennium ago. Darling says that tropical landscapes are littered with ancient earthworks that dwarf more famous ancient mega-structures […]

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Natural & Beautiful Elongated Skulls of Africans and African descendants found in 2016?

November 27, 2016 4 Comments Written by sola rey

Ancient Egyptians Depiction In Art –No comment on this subject matter Genetic similarities of Africans and African descendants found in 2016? Source: This was Published on Aug 21, 2016 by Al Jazeera news Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports from a new settlement area in northern Uganda. Sudan, once the largest and one of the most geographically diverse states in […]

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Vikings in Morocco and Africans in early medieval Ireland & Britain?

November 25, 2016 1 Comment Written by sola rey

This might explain why some Scandinavian genes are showing up in a few DNA test results of African descendants. –Sea expeditions of the Viking Age Three burials from early medieval Britain that have been identified as those of African women on the basis of an examination of their skeletal remains. One of the burials in […]

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Egyptian Book Of The Dead

November 21, 2016 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw is translated as “Book of Coming Forth by Day”. Another translation would be “Book of emerging […]

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