Lancelot Owens, or his birth name Lancelot Owens, Sr., was married to Rita Bray. They had together a son and a daughter. The first dead Lancelot Owens, Jr. Lancelot Jr, was killed in 1992 in a motorcycle accident. The motorcycle he was driving at the time just so happened to be the one that his sister, Queen Latifah, had previously purchased for him. A 2006 interview revealed that Latifah still wears the key to the motorcycle around her neck, which can be seen throughout her acting performance in her sitcom TV show Living Single.
The daughter is Dana Elaine Owens or better known as Queen Latifah. He raised his kids with his wife in East Orange, New Jersey, in the United States of America. He took care of and provided for his family with his salary as a police officer.
When his daughter Dana was ten years old, Lancelot and Rita began to break down. During this period, the couple separated and went their ways. However, they continued to co-parent their children together, and the kids went without anything. Soon after their separation, the married couple filed for divorce. Even though Lancelot and Rita were divorced, they stayed friends and worked through their problems. They would go on to raise two wonderful and successful children. That right there is a significant accomplishment in of itself.
Unfortunately, on March 21, 2018, Rita Owens passed away after a more than decade-long struggle with heart failure. She was a very successful actress and has been in many movies and television shows throughout her career. Not to mention being a joy of a mother to her children.
Lancelot and Rita both have appeared side by side with Queen Latifah during interviews and even accompanying her along to talk show host interviews. They have joined her to award ceremonies and been with her every step of the way. They were very supportive of her lifestyle and the direction her career took over the years, and even though their marriage was over, the two were very much on good terms with one another.
Dana Elaine Owens, his daughter, is better known for her artistic and stage name: Queen Latifah. She was born on March 18 in 1970, in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States of America. She grew in East Orange, New Jersey. When she was ten years old, she lived through the divorce of her parents. She attended a Catholic School in Newark, New Jersey. During her time at high school, she played on the basketball team and had parts in school plays, for example, The Wiz. On a personal note from her life, in 1992, she lost her brother to a car accident.
