Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita At least 492 lines of descent can be traced from Queen Charlotte through her triple ancestry from **Margarita de Castro y Sousa to Martin Alfonso de Sousa Chichorro**, the illegitimate son of King Alfonso of Portugal and his Moorish mistress, Oruana/Madragana. Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita …. At least 492 lines of descent can be traced from Queen Charlotte through her triple ancestry from **Margarita de Castro y Sousa to Martin Alfonso de Sousa Chichorro**, the illegitimate son of King Alfonso of Portugal and his Moorish mistress, Oruana/Madragana. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/royalfamily.html#:~:text=At%20least%20492%20lines%20of,Moorish%20mistress%2C%20Oruana%2FMadragana. Historian John H Plumb described her as "plain and undesirable". Even her physician, Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, reportedly described the elderly queen as "small and crooked, with a true mulatto face". Definition of MULATTO: from Oxford Languages (https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en)Learn more (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/10106608?hl=en) mu·lat·to **OFFENSIVE•DATED** *noun* 1. a person of mixed white and BLACK ancestry (https://www.google.com/search?especially a person with one white and one Black parent. Good thing you reached out . Now you have no excuse to be ignorant! https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/

The Guitarra morisca or Mandora medieval is a plucked string instrument. It is a lute that has a bulging belly and a sickle-shaped headstock. Part of that characterization comes from a c. 1330 poem, Libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz, arcipestre de Hita, which described the "Moorish gittern" as "corpulent". The use of the adjective morisca tacked to guitarra may have been to differentiate it from the commonly seen Latin European variety, when the morisca was seen on a limited basis during the 14th century. Appeared[sic] in the early 9th century, it is an instrument mentioned in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, and by Johannes de Grocheio (towards 1300) who called it quitarra sarracénica. In the 14th century it is known by the term "guitarra morisca", coined by Arcipreste de Hita in Libro de buen amor. It is a hybrid instrument between the guitarra latina and medieval lute, usually played by fingers or plectrum. It has roots in the four-string Arabic oud, brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 8th century. The guitarra morisca is a direct ancestor of the modern guitar. By the 14th century, the guitarra morisca was simply referred to as a guitar. The guitarra morisca is an obscure instrument, known mainly from pictures. Early instrument expert Francis William Galpin mentioned the instrument in his book, Old English Instruments of Music (pages 21-22), calling it the "Guitare Moresca" or "Chittara Saraacenica", with its "long neck, oval shaped body and round back." He also felt it related to the Colascione. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarra_morisca #blackhistorymonth #bhm #moor #moorish #amazigh #imazighen #maghreb #westafrica #africanhistory #alandalus #guitar #music #musichistory #guittaramorisca