Inspired by: Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies. She was born into a royal West African dynasty, but was orphaned after a massacre of her home country when she was 8. She was captured by Captain Fredrick E. Forbes and given to Queen Victoria as a present. The Queen was impressed by her naturally regal mannerisms and took Sarah on to be her goddaughter. Sarah was so intelligent that she outsmarted all of her tutors and had a love for art, literature, and academics in general. In August of 1862, Sarah was married to James Pinson Labulo Davies, a young, wealthy Yoruba businessman.

 

 Their wedding party was of pure extravagance; there were 10 carriages and 16 bridesmaids comprised of white women with African men and African women with white men. After the wedding, the couple moved back to Africa where Sarah had a daughter, whom Queen Victoria allowed to be named Victoria after her. Sarah had two more children before dying at age 37 after battling Tuberculosis for years. Victoria took Sarah's daughter, Victoria, on as a goddaughter also, and was equally as proud of her as she was of her mother.