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Jazell Barbie Royale (born August 8, 1987) is an American beauty pageant titleholder, singer, and entertainer. She won the Miss Continental pageant in 2016 and, in 2019, she became the second American and the first woman of African descent to win Miss International Queen. In 2022, Royale placed fourth during the second season of Queen of the ...
Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB (born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster, later taking the religious name Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary; April 13, 1924 – May 29, 2019), was an African-American nun from rural Missouri who founded the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles.
Stephanie St. Clair was born of African descent in the West Indies to a single mother, Félicienne, who worked hard to send her daughter to school. According to St. Clair's 1924 Declaration of Intention, she gave Fort-de-France , French West Indies (present-day Martinique , West Indies ) as her place of birth.
Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York with a birth announcement that read: "Here she is: Miss America". [2] [3] She was raised in Millwood, New York. [1] A paternal great-great-grandfather was William Fields, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Williams is also of English and Welsh descent.
William Dorsey Swann (March 1860 – c. December 23, 1925) [2] was an American activist. An African-American born into slavery, Swann was the first person in the United States to lead a gay resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag".
Adjoa Andoh, a Ghanian-British actress who plays Lady Danbury in Bridgerton, says of the queen’s ancestry in New African, “Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, was the descendant of an ...
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Evelyn Abena Akuaba Appiah (born June 2, 1993) is a Ghanaian–American singer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Queen Beauty Universe 2016 and Miss Grand International 2020. [1] [2] She was appointed as Miss Grand USA and became the first Black woman to win the Miss Grand International crown.