Yet Charlotte (1744-1818) has much less resonance in the land where she was actually queen. 'As a woman, an immigrant, a person who may have had African forebears, botanist, a queen who opposed slavery - she speaks to Americans, especially in a city in the south like Charlotte that is trying to redefine itself.' 'We think your queen speaks to us on lots of levels,' says Cheryl Palmer, director of education at the Mint museum.
