Queen Charlotte: The Real Story Behind the Royal's Life and Romance With King George
glamour.com, Bridgerton has won praise for its gripping plot, lavish aesthetic, and the refreshing racial diversity of its talented cast.
Yet while most of those in the Bridgerton world are fictional, taken from , Queen Charlotte was a real-life figure (and in fact doesn’t feature in the Bridgerton books).Now, in a lush new prequel, , the life of the young Queen Charlotte is explored.
Starring as the Young Queen Charlotte (her older character is played by Golda Rosheuvel), the series is now available to stream on Netflix.Born on May 19, 1744, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the youngest daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, styled as the Prince of Mirow, and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
The family ruled over Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a small north-German duchy situated in what was then the Holy Roman Empire. And while the ubiquity of varied racial representation in Bridgerton is a reimagining of how London high society looked at the time, in regards to Charlotte (brilliantly brought to life by Guyanese-born British actor Golda Rosheuvel in the series), there are theories that she did in fact have mixed racial heritage.Portrait of Queen Charlotte with her two eldest sons, the future George IV (left) and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (right), 1769Historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom that a number of of the Queen appear to show her with distinctly African features.
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