
Sarah Forbes Bonetta Queen Victoria's Goddaughter
February is Black History Month. Thanks to my eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Watson, I've studied Black history almost my entire life, and yet, there are so many untold stories like Sarah Forbes Bonetta. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Bonetta was born in 1843 in what is now southwest Nigeria. Her parents' names are unknown as are the names of her siblings who were all k