A story I found in this Afro-Europe blog; I was surprised of how little is known/talked about of Sarah Forbes Bonetta , a West African Egbado Omoba (Yoruba people of South-West Nigeria) of royal blood, who was orphaned at the age of eight due to a family massacre in her home country.
As the story goes, Royal Navy Captain Frederick E. Forbes convinced King Guezo of Dahomey (known today as Benin in W. Africa), soon after the country’s warfare killings, to allow him to give the young princess to Queen Victoria in England as a gift. Forbes wrote later in his diary that the princess was “a present from the King of the blacks to the Queen of the Whites.”
Upon witnessing the young girl’s regal manner and exceptional intellectual aptitude (it’s said she learned to speak perfect English on the way to Britain), Queen Victoria granted the newly named Sarah Forbes Bonetta regular visits to the Windsor Castle, and sent Sarah, now the Queen’s goddaughter in middle class Britain, to Sierra Leon to be educated in a Church Missionary Society.
In August 1862, Sarah was sanctioned by Queen Victoria to marry a Yoruba businessman of considerable wealth named James Pinson Labulo Davies , at Nicholas Church in Brighton. The extravagant wedding party included ten carriages and pairs of grays and sixteen bridesmaids. The wedding is documented to made up “of white ladies with African gentlemen, and African ladies with white gentlemen.”
After the wedding, the couple later moved back to their native West Africa. Sarah had a daughter; who she named Victoria with the Queen’s permission. Sadly, Sarah died at the young age of 37 of tuberculosis.
Upon her death, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary “Saw poor Victoria Davies, my black godchild, who learnt this morning of the death of her dear mother.

The Queen was proud of Victoria's educational excellence and gave her annuity for continued visits to the royal household throughout her life. In a journal of Frederick E. Forbes, he says this about Sarah: I have only to add a few particulars about my
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