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Three Black Caribbean women made history again on Saturday in London for their ceremonial roles during the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, a Jamaican-British Anglican prelate, serves as Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the Diocese of Canterbury.
Valerie Ann Amos, a Guyanese-British politician and diplomat, and Floella Benjamin, a Trinidadian-British politician, and businesswoman, both hold British nobility ranks.
Baroness Amos of Brondesbury made history when she was invested in the Order of the Garter last year and became the first Black woman to serve in a British cabinet and as leader of the House of Lords from 2003 to 2007.
The king entrusted Amos, 73, to hold the Sovereign’s Sceptre with Dove, a gold and silver rod decorated with the white dove of the Holy Ghost.
Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham, the chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee, made British history when she became the first Black actress to become a peer in the House of Lords in 2010. The king entrusted her to carry The Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross.
The women who played meaningful roles during the sacred ritual at Westminster Abbey were born in Trinidad and Tobago’s town of Pointe-A-Pierre, Guyana’s city of Georgetown, and Jamaica’s city of Montego Bay. All former colonies obtained independence from the British Empire.
Pretty symbolic, huh? #BWLM💕
