Legacy
Catherine introduced the custom of drinking tea in Britain. The tea had been imported to Portugal from the Portuguese possessions in Asia as well as through the trade Portuguese merchants maintained with China and Japan. Samuel Pepys diary makes reference to drinking tea for the first time on 28 September 1660 (i.e. prior to Catherine's marriage to Charles). According to the Museum Director of the house of Braganza, it was not only drinking tea but "High Tea" at 5:00 pm (some people believe it to be at 4:00 pm) which is still a Portuguese tradition.
Catherine also introduced the fork to the dining tables of England.
It is believed that Queens, a borough of New York City, was named after Catherine of Braganza, since she was queen when Queens County was established in 1683, alongside Kings County (Brooklyn, originally named after her husband, King Charles II), and Richmond County (Staten Island, named after his illegitimate son, the 1st Duke of Richmond).
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.
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