Merry King Charles Stuart II: The Black King of England – Oguejiofo Annu
The word Stuart comes from the old nordish root Svart which means black. Stuart is the same word as Swarthy, which means black in old English. [Others claim its root origin is Steward]. However that might be, this is not the crux of the story here. Our story is about the suppressed history of the Black and Brown Europeans including several kings that had once called Europe their original home.
There was once a Stuart line of Kings in England. The name of the founding ancestor was Stuart.
In this post, we feature the original painting of one of the Stuart Kings of England and Scotland, King Charles II, also lovingly known as the “black boy” of England by his subjects.
He is commemorated in the celebrated name of the Black Boy Inn, found all over the British Isle.
Like his ancestors before him, King Charles II was a black man. Many of his surviving paintings falsely depict him as a so-called white man in clear contradiction to the famous description of the jolly King.
However, in the picture posted immediately below, one can see one of the contemporary paintings of King Charles Stuart II, Merry Black Boy of England. This picture invites all to decide why King Charles Stuart II, would have been called the black boy.
King Charles Stuart II 1630 – 1685
The eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, daughter of Henry IV of France, the future Charles II was born on 29th May, 1630, at St. James Palace, London, the second child of the marriage, he replaced an elder brother, Charles James, who had died shortly after birth.
It was said that when Charles was born in 1630 he was nicknamed the Black Boy by his mother, Queen Henrietta Maria, because of his dark and swarthy appearance
In 1646, following political crisis, his father Charles I was overthrown by Oliver Cromwell and beheaded. Charles II had to flee for his life through Scotland and on to France after making a weak and symbolic attempt at regaining the Stuart title. Fate and reality had soon dawned on him. He settled into a life of penury in France.
Upon the death of Oliver Cromwell, Charles was recalled back to England by Cromwell’s legatee and son who had no interest in ruling England. Charles was restored back to the throne and his coronation took place at the traditional venue of Westminster Abbey on 23rd April, 1661.
The Merry Monarch as he was later to become known, is famous for his many mistresses. Although he had numerous children by his mistresses, the Queen, to her great sadness, remained barren.
Charles popularity with the people was solid. Despite the ravages of last great outbreak of the Bubonic Plague struck London in 1665, which claimed thousands of lives; and the great fire of London 1666 which completely destroyed the city, he was highly favoured by the people.
He died without an official heir on 6 February, 1685 after a brief illness and was succeeded by his brother, King James II. He was the most beloved of all the Kings in the line of the Stuarts.
Black King of England
According to the annals of the english monarch:
Charles’ appearance was anything but English, with his sensuous curling mouth, dark complexion, black hair and dark brown eyes, he much resembled his Italian maternal grandmother, Marie de Medici’s side of the family. During his escape after the Battle of Worcester, he was referred to as ‘a tall, black man’ in parliamentary wanted posters.
One of the nick-names he acquired was the black boy His height, at six feet two inches, probably inherited from his Danish paternal grandmother, Anne of Denmark, also set him apart from his contemporaries in a time when the average Englishman was far smaller than today.
English Pubs
All English pubs named the Black boy are named after Charles II due to the swarthy and dark colour of his complexion.
Modern European painters try to hide the racial identity of this jolly King by depicting such fantasy as is posted below:
July 28, 2009
Sources
Black Boy Inn
Religion, race, culture, politics its all the same a nightmare a never ending reason for conflict. If there is a all mighty up there which I believe all through human evolution in some form or other has been there means we ALL have the need to beleive in a higher being. The big Question is who is right? The real and only true FACT is nobody knows we only have our own inheritied beliefs to carry own. The real sad fact is I think we all agree there is only one true god (no matter what religeon) but unfortunately we cant all be on the winning side, most of us will be wrong? Me personally well I think god up above will be looking down at us ALL and thinking what a mess we have made of the whole thing as every religeon is a offshoot of another or has been modified by man to suit there own needs at that time. Basically if we are all really honest and follow our hearts we know deep down inside whats right and whats wrong, the problem with this is you have to have a good heart to start with no matter what religion you are.
May your god be with you
I can distictly remeber the first person that I ever saw that was different from me, I was only about seven or eight and a chinese resturaunt had just opened in our village. The thing is as a young boy I did not feel threatened or protective in fact the entire opposite , I was eager to interact and find out about them without any pre conceived ideas. Maybe this was the inocense of youth? What does that over used statement mean? To me it means a clean soul that has not been violated. A child has the unique abilty to connect with all cultures without pre concived ideas. For example if you get a room full of kids and toys from all the differnt cultures in the world and observe it will be no different from sicking kids from the same culture in a room. What I am saying it is only as we grow older and have external influenses put on us that make us different, conflict, distrust and eventually hate????
May your god be with you
I have just read the comments from the top of the page about royalty, race , culture and so on?? What is excactly royalty?, a strange man made creation? surely IF there were distinctions to be made upon mortals this would have been done by god himself. There is absolutely no indication in the past of any monarchy being chosen by any god, this would be a direct contradiction of the whole philosophy of a divine being. I am afraid we only have ourselves to blame on the so called royalty line, in the eyes of god we are all royal and for us as a culture to place any such people on a pedistle and proclaim them as “royal” is like saying someone is a witch and burning them, how do we know these things, answer we dont. In the eyes of god all Men (women) are equal no matter who you are.
My accusation to this website is that it does exactly what you denounce. It promotes racism. Just because the racism is Black against white, the subjugated against the dominant does not justify it. If you don’t think that the comments on this from people like Jahday are racist then take a quick look at some other articles. One of them reads that “white people are genetically inferior”.
The people on this site denounce racism while being racist themselves. They attack Eurocentrism while replacing it with afrocentrism. They use massive generalisations to justify what is essentially racism. What they argue is little different to the Nazi’s claiming superior Aryan blood and a dominant role in history through Atlantis.
Rob
Shut your trap-door! You lost an argument here already, and should be quitely studying your Muurish European history to update your knowledge about the reality of life. Quit the drinking the cool-aid fake European history you were grown on. Seek to comprehend the real truth, and you will be free.
Truth is for everyone, both so-called Blacks and so-called whytes.
Jahdey
Articles on here say “whites are genetically inferior”. That is a fact. You can’t dispute it and thus lose the argument. Unfortunately your afro-centrism clouds your judgement. You are blinded by your own ideology and fail to see the truth.
Stop whinning and STFU!
The article you are complaining about “whites are genetically inferior” was actually written by a team of pink-white (like yourself), Europeans scientists. But unlike you they are accredited scientists and accepted in their fields..
The in depth studies can be found at the article’s source, here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html
Unlike you they are very educated and open minded. They accepted the truth and published it. Are those Europeans also racists?
Rasta Livewire just re-posted it and you are having a belly-ache? Again I ask you, are the European authors of that article racist Afrocentrics? Will you also shoot the messenger because you do not like the message?
Huussh! Shut your trap and go siddon in a corner and study some real Muurish history.
Welcome to Rasta Livewire.com!
Jahdey
I can give you a million articles claiming blacks are inferior. It doesn’t make it true…
Written by African or Afro-American scientists? Post them.
BTW: The article I posted for you is written by so-called white scientists. From Cornell University, an Ivy League University in the United States, and one of the best in the world.
The in depth studies can be found at the article’s source, here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html
So you know better than them? Yet you cannot even manage to cope with the history of Europe. Interesting…
Also, as far as I am concerned I won the argument about Charles. None of your evidence was credible. But that doesn’t make a difference. Even if the world was once ruled by black people – your still a racist.
^And you are a pecker-wood!
An ashen, beaten, weakened pecker-wood!
Go quietly to a corner and read muur articles from Rasta Livewire to uplift your benighted mind.
A moor= An arab/North-African. Is an arab a black person?
Moor means black man. There was not yet born an Arab moor, save the black Arabs.
Jahdey, peace, but, you have vented a lot of emotion and a lot of supposition in this discussion. You are very passionate about the subject of the international history and dignity of the Moorish and African peoples, many more people should be. Accuracy and clarity are necessary, but intensity is harmful. To add something worthwhile, it is necessary to answer questions clearly, thoroughly and in an inoffensive way. I’m shocked that so many defenders of Egmond Codfried’s views have responded to innocent and worthwhile observations with personal insults, when they could have peacefully clarified the issue for everyone’s benefit.
It can take months or years for individuals to see the bigger picture, so what’s the hurry, patience is the way to a better, racist free world.
Just give me a minute, please, till I get my suit of armour on – thanks.
Dublin doesn’t mean black city, it means black river dubh lin…..
NO MAN IS SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER MAN!! ONLY JAH IS SUPERIOR TO MANKIND. IN FACT, WE ARE NOT “BLACK” OR WHITE” OR “YELLOW” OR “BROWN” OR “PINK” SO ON AND SO ON. THESE DESCRIPTIONS LIMIT OUR MINDS AND CORRUPT OUR SOULS. THE TRUTH IS THAT WE ARE ALL SHADES OF THE SAME COLOR AND MEMBERS OF THE SAME RACE (HUEMANS= HUMANS OF DIFFERENT HUES). THE TRUTH CANNOT BE FOUND IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. HISTORY IS A PRODUCT OF MAN. HISTORY CANNOT BE CONSIDERED FACT OR THE TRUTH BECAUSE IT COMES FROM HUMANS. ONE MUST ONLY STUDY HISTORY TO LEARN, NOT TO FIND TRUTH. TRUTH CAN BE OBSERVED ONLY BY STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN I AND I. LOOK WITHIN YOURSELF FOR THE TRUTH. FOR THE MAN WHO LEANS PON HIS OWN UNDERSTANDING WILL ALWAYS BE SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH IS REVEALED TO THE MAN WHO ACCEPTS HIS IGNORANCE AND RELIES UPON THE OVERSTANDING OF JAH CREATOR. YES I BLESS I EVERY TIME. MUCH LOVE TO THE HUEMAN RACE.
(sigh!) What a load of… “The word Stuart comes from the old nordish root Svart which means black. Stuart is the same word as Swarthy, which means black in old English.”
No, the name Stuart comes from Steward, the position a junior member of the Fitzallan family held when they came north from England into Scotland. They became the King of Scotland’s hereditary ‘steward’ or the person who arranged the king’s events. The Fitzallans inherited the throne of Scotland when Walter Fitzallan “the Steward” married Marjorie Bruce the only daughter of Robert I who died without a male heir. It had nothing to do with their coloring as it is a known fact that most of the Stuarts had red hair from their Breton forebears.
Charles II was known as the “black boy” because he was very swarthy and dark haired. This was no doubt inherited from his mother Henriette de Bourbon who was half Medici (Italian) and half French. As his family was from the border area of Spain there might have been Moorish blood in the family.
Seriously, if you go back far enough, we are all from Africa.
I agree with you king louis the 14th of france had similar colouration to king charles because they were related through there common medeci ancestor