Can a black person who is a citizen of the U.K. be royalty or included in the peerage?

Question

Are there, or have there ever been black (of African descent)lords, barons, viscounts, marquisses, or dukes in the U.K.? Is nobility only included within hereditary titles, not marriage? For example: If a baroness marries a regular man off the street, does she keep her title or lose it? Also, does he become a baron?

Answer 1

It's already been answered. But, oh dear, namdam, you really do not know the history of slavery do you? Blacks were slaves, to other blacks and to people from the middle east, Europe etc well back before the founding of Rome. Similarly, whites were slaves to blacks etc etc way back then.

Answer 2

Technically, anyone of any skin color who is a British citizen can be made a life peer (a non-hereditary noble). Also, any black woman who married a lord would as his wife become a lady and use the courtesy title appropriate considering his title. Similarly, a black woman who married into the Royal Family would become royal herself, as long as she wasn't divorced or Catholic.

In answer to your other questions, women always keep the title they were born to, although in the UK, most peerages cannot be passed to women. The daughter of Baron Smith is not Baroness Smith, but a The Hon Mary Smith. However, men never take their wife's title, so the husband of Lady Mary Smith, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, is John Thompson. They would be addressed as John and Lady Mary Thompson.

Answer 3

The 436th person in the line of succession to the Throne:

George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 6 June 1961), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is the oldest son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce. He is an older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten.

He is a direct descendant of the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin, as well a direct descendant of Peter the Great's African [read "black"] protégé, the former slave Abram Petrovich Gannibal.

Answer 4

Emma McQuiston, Lady Bath married Viscount Ceawlin Thynn
Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Baroness Floella Benjamin,
Chiwetel Ejiofor OBE,
Don Warrington MBE
Roy Williams OBE.
Alex Wheatle,MBE
Jessica Ennis-Hill, CBE
Dame Sybil Phoenix
Godfrey Palmer, OBE
Google is your friend

Answer 5

Emma Mcquiston Wikipedia

Answer 6

Below is a list of Black Britons who have become peers of the realm:

------Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale

------Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

------Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St. David

------Sir Trevor McDonald

------David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead

------Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal

------John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

------Sir Magdi Yacoub

The Queen (or rather Parliament) is more than happy to offer a peerage to anyone whose accomplishments or political pull might warrant it.

Answer 7

Obviously a madman would never check facts but just let a retarded brain come out with the first thing that entered the only brain cell in it's head.

Answer 8

Your kidding right, the racist anglophillic royals and their slavish subjects would kill before a black person was permitted into the parastical royal club. Never forget the birtish were one of the first and worst slave traders in blacks

Answer 9

if you married a duke for example, you have the tiitle but when he death youcontinue having the tiitle if you're widower; when you married again, you lose it

Answer 10

i believe they can be knighted.....i heard of a calypsonian from African descent being knighted not sure about anyone else....good question though