At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
- ISBN-10
- 0590486691
- ISBN-13
- 9780590486699
- Category
- Africans
- Pages
- 146
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Author
- Walter Dean Myers
Description
A Newbery Honor author traces the biography of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
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