QUEEN SOPHIA CHARLOTTE, THE INVISIBLE QUEEN

​​I'm proud of the backstory on how we came to carry this book on the real life Queen Charlotte the series is based on.

When the author of "Invisible Queen:  Mixed Ancestry Revealed", Dr. Stephanie E. Myers, contacted our bookstore in 2018, I was immediately intrigued about the topic of her book.  I'd heard the name Queen Charlotte mentioned by some of our customers, but I hadn't delved further.   A few online email conversations later, the author made it clear she had no intentions of selling her book on Am$zon and was seeking out independent booksellers.  And, all of this time, even through the pandemic, she has remained that way.  Copies that are available there are not being sold by the author.  We are proud to have been approved to sell her books and have sold over 150 since 2018.

I know her stance is a hard road to tow nowadays, especially through a pandemic.  I salute her for standing her ground.  She is aware of the rough and tumble tactics of that online behemoth and focused on remaining independent as publisher and distributor.  The author has been interviewed on many news outlets and was one of the first to dig deep to pull out the details of Queen Charlotte's life and boldly identify the undeniable links to her African heritage.  Any attempts to whitewash her past are destroyed in this fact filled biography which highlights:

• Her interests in gardening, architecture, painting, and home design.
• A waterway, sculptures, a flower, a dessert, and a hospital named after her, to name a few.
• Her contribution to the abolition of slavery in the United Kingdom.
• Having 15 children in 21 years.

and much more.

This book is also filled with photographs that are not commonly found on google for example.  She truly did her homework outside of online sources to write the book and even lists the museums and galleries you can visit to verify.  For example the book mentions that the family artist was a Scottish painter named Allan Ramsey who painted 233 paintings of her and  King George III.  The footnotes, websites and reference she lists are impeccably detailed.  
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I could go on, but will pause to let this serve as a salute to the author Dr. Stephanie Myers, for her research and foresight in delving deeper long before Netflix made it popular, all on her own dime.
Remember to follow your curiosity.  It may just change your life.

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As always, I appreciate that you have read through this blog post.  I've also posted the same content as a facebook post April 3, 2024. Here's a podcast interview we did in 2023. I hope that you’ve become curious to read "The Invisible Queen," or other books Black perspective.  We ask that you consider purchasing your books from our Black owned bookstore, Afriware Books, Co.  If there is a title you’d like to purchase that is not mentioned here, or could not be found on the website, feel free to email us at:  [email protected]