Royal dynasties were almost always based on lineage, which is genetic, of course. But it was the bloodline of one particular family that was "royal" not everybody else in that country who happened to look like them.
And countries or Empires with a mixed race population often had Kings or Queens who might be what we would call a different race than the majority of the population.
There was at least one Emperor of Rome who was definitely black African by birth .. Septimus Severus, who was a Nubian.
The Romans accepted the Nubians as equal to themselves, because of their culture and civilisation, but they viewed the Celtic British tribes as barbarians, fit only to be ******.
During the reign of Septimus Severus, he sent a regiment of his Nubian countrymen to guard Hadrians wall, and keep the Scots out of his empire. That's the earliest historical record of black people in the UK.
And countries or Empires with a mixed race population often had Kings or Queens who might be what we would call a different race than the majority of the population.
There was at least one Emperor of Rome who was definitely black African by birth .. Septimus Severus, who was a Nubian.
The Romans accepted the Nubians as equal to themselves, because of their culture and civilisation, but they viewed the Celtic British tribes as barbarians, fit only to be ******.
During the reign of Septimus Severus, he sent a regiment of his Nubian countrymen to guard Hadrians wall, and keep the Scots out of his empire. That's the earliest historical record of black people in the UK.

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