Rupert and King Charles II were first cousins…
“Charles the second was, in the popular language of the day, a tall black man”
SOURCE;
(Norman Chevers, "An Enquiry into the circumstances of the Death of King Charles the Second"; 1861)
Colonel George Gounter, helped Charles II to escape from England after the battle of Worcester…
“Colonel Gounter mentions that, shortly after the King had left Brighton, “soldiers came into the town to search for a tall black man, six feet two inches high,” meaning the King”
SOURCES;
(Henry Cary, ‘Memorials Of The Great Civil War In England From 1646 To 1652 ; Edited From Original Letters In The Bodleian Library Volume 2’; 1842)
(George Gounter, ‘The Last Act in the Miraculous Story of King Charles the Second's Escape Out of the Reach of His Tyrannical Enemies ... Now First Published from the Original MS’; 1846)
(“A Narrative of The Adventures of Charles the Second after The Battle of Worcester”; 1859)
His sons and grandson, are also described verbatim in first hand historical accounts as tall black men, and as having “black complexions”…
COMPLEXION = the natural color, texture, and appearance of a person's SKIN especially of the FACE.
DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND— “a tall, black man, like his father the King”
DUKE OF GRAFTON— “grandson to King Charles II; a tall black man”
CHARLES LENNOX, DUKE OF RICHMOND— “black complexion, much like King Charles”
DUKE OF ST. ALBANS—“son to King Charles the Second, he is of a black complexion”
SOURCE;
(Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. Including, Also, the True Secret History of the Rise, Promotions, & of the English and Scots Nobility, Officers, Civil, Military, Naval, and Other Persons of Distinction, from the Revolution, in Their Respective Characters at Large; 1733)
This portrait was painted by Jan Lievens circa 1631...
Jan Lievens was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers...
Like Rembrandt he painted both portraits and history paintings...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, was a German army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor...
He first came to prominence as a Cavalier cavalry commander during the English Civil War...
Rupert was a younger son of the German prince Frederick V of the Palatinate and his wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England.
Prince Rupert had a varied career. He was a soldier from a young age, fighting alongside Dutch forces against the Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
Aged 23, he was appointed commander of the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War, becoming the archetypal "Cavalier" of the war and ultimately the senior Royalist general...
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