Did Queen Victoria Really Adopt An Orphaned African Princess?

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Sara Forbes Bonetta was a West African Egbado omoba of Yoruba royalty who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria

The little-known tale of the African slave girl adopted by Queen Victoria

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was saved from certain death after her parents were brutally killed in Nigeria when she was just five - little did the young girl know that she would soon be taken in by the long-reigning monarch

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