"Although some have claimed that Queens, a borough of New York City, was named after Catherine of Braganza, her name is not mentioned in the first 200 years of historical documents that have been preserved in the county archives. Because it was alleged that the Queen and her family had profited from the slave trade a recent effort to build a 10 m (33 ft)-tall statue in her honour in Queens was defeated by local African American, Irish-American and community groups. A quarter-scale model survives at the site of Expo '98, in Lisbon, Portugal, facing Queens across the Atlantic."
A história da Catarina de Bragança ter levado o chá para a corte de Charles II sabia, bem como ser graças ao seu dote, que incluiu Bombaim, que os Ingleses puseram o seu pezinho na India pela primeira vez em força. Mas a história de Queens e a existência da estátua na Expo não fazia a mais pequena ideia!
na wikipedia: aqui e aqui
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