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 [Ancestry of British royal family] Original Airdate: 9/5/1986 Length: 00:02:12 Item Type: newstape - edited story master Go back to main record. Full Description 1:00:33 Visual: Shots of the cover page of a book titled, Blood Royal. Mario Valdes reports that one of the heralds of Queen Elizabeth of England has published a book which covers the ancestry of the British Royal Family; that one of the charts diagrams Queen Elizabeth's African lineage. V: Shot of a diagram from the book of Queen Elizabeth's ancestry. Valdes reports that Elizabeth is a descendent of Zaida, who was the Moorish wife of Alfonso VI of Castille. Valdez note that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are descendents of George III; that George's wife Charlotte is known to have had "negroid features"; that Charlotte was a descendent of a black mistress to a 13th-century Portuguese king. V: Shot of a picture of George III; of a picture of Charlotte; of an ancient mask. Valdes reports that Prince Philip's aunt Nadja is a descendent of the black Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Valdes notes that Nadja's marriage to George Mountbatten in 1916 was accompanied by racist letters and editorials in the press. V: Shot of a black and white family photograph which includes Nadja. Valdes adds that the Mountbattens reared Prince Philip during his adolescence. V: Shot of a color photograph of Nadja with her family. Valdes notes that Queen Elizabeth has taken a stand against apartheid; that Prince Charles has shown impatience with bigotry of any sort. V: Footage of Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony. Shot of a photo of Prince Charles and one of his sons. Valdes says that the Royal Family's African ancestry is important; that discrimination causes African blacks to be treated far differently than the Royal Family. V: Shots of a color photo of Queen Elizabeth with black leaders; of Queen Elizabeth waving from a horse-drawn carriage. Shot of a color photograph of Queen Elizabeth. Valdes says that the Royal Family's African lineage underscores the "utter absurdity of racism." |
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