{"id":17649,"date":"2022-09-12T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=215744"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:13:06","slug":"15-minutes-of-fame-aina-forbes-bonetta-queen-victorias-yoruba-goddaughter","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/15-minutes-of-fame-aina-forbes-bonetta-queen-victorias-yoruba-goddaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"15 minutes of fame: Aina Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria\u2019s Yoruba goddaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 12 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>It\u2019s the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast\u2019s 15th birthday, and to celebrate, we\u2019ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019. In this episode, Hannah Cusworth nominates <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/victorian\/famous-victorians-bronte-brunel-darwin-who\/&quot;\">Aina Forbes Bonetta<\/a>, also known as Sara. A Yoruba girl transported from West Africa, Aina became a goddaughter of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/victorian\/queen-victoria-facts-life-children-prince-albert-husband-marriage-reign\/&quot;\">Queen Victoria<\/a>. 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