Scholars have pointed out that dozens of portraits and descriptions depict her as a typical Northern European woman and that there is no evidence that her distant ancestor Margarita de Castro e Souza was "black" or from a "black" Portuguese noble family. Charlotte's even more distant ancestor Madragana was likely Mozarab and not Moorish, and even if Madragana were Moorish, "moorish" is a far cry from "black"; additionally, Charlotte shared descent from Madragana with a large proportion of European royalty, including her husband, King George III.