‘Queen Charlotte’: Shonda Rhimes, Cast On ‘Bridgerton’ Prequel Not Shying Away From Race
etcanada.com“Bridgerton‘s” Queen Charlotteis stepping into the spotlight. Netflix launches the six-part limited series, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”, which delves deeper into the origin story of how Charlotte became the queen and her life beyond the crown.
Told through two different time periods — one that charts young Charlotte’s (India Amarteifio) early days of her reign and marriage to King George (Corey Mylchreest), and the other set decades later with an older, hardened queen (“Bridgerton’s” Golda Rosheuvel) lording over the kingdom.
While “Bridgerton” briefly dipped its toe into Queen Charlotte’s real-life mixed race ancestry and depicted a Regency era that was a more racially inclusive interpretation of the time period, where people of color also held titles and positions of power, “Queen Charlotte” — in many respects — fills in the blanks on how the Ton got there in the first place.
As the series establishes, uniting George and Charlotte through marriage was a political and social chess move (aka “The Great Experiment”) meant to serve as a unifying force for the people. “It was incredibly important to infuse the narrative with these themes mainly because the character that we’re talking about, Queen Charlotte, [we] already created a very simple backstory for her on “Bridgerton”.
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