 Charles Faa Blythe was a brother-in-law to William Faa II, and when he died without issue the title of King of the Gypsies was passed to Charles, husband of his sister, Esther.Charles was born in 1775 and died in 1861.He was crowned King, by the local blacksmith, George Gladstone, on 25 October 1847, aged at least 70 years.