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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Queen_Charlotte:_AQueen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story - Wikipedia

    Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is an American historical fiction television limited series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. [1] The series is a prequel spin-off of the Netflix series Bridgerton .

  3. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › the-realThe Real History Behind ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’

    • Black Britons in “Bridgerton”
    • The Debate Over Charlotte’s Black Ancestry
    • George and Charlotte’s Relationship

    Like its sister show, “Queen Charlotte” takes substantial liberties with the historical record, portraying Charlotte as a Black woman whose marriage opened doors for people of color in 18th-century England. (In truth, most historians reject the theory that Charlotte was Black.) As Black aristocrat Lady Agatha Danbury saysin “Bridgerton,” “We were t...

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    The idea that Charlotte was Black stems from research conducted by historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom. Writing for PBS Frontline in 1997, he argued that Charlotte was “directly descended” from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman who was herself related to the 13th-century ruler Afonso III and his Moorish lover Madragana...

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    Born on May 19, 1744, Charlotte was the youngest daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a territory in what is now northern Germany. When Charlotte was 17, the new king of England, 22-year-old George III, sought her hand in marriage. According to History Extra’s Catherine Curzon, George “needed a queen—and an heir—as a matter of urgency,” so...

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  4. time.com › 6277014The True Story Behind Netflix’s Queen Charlotte - TIME

    May 5, 2023 · In the series, Charlotte’s visibility as the first Black queen of England leads to the crown giving titles to other people of color and inviting them to join the then-segregated court and the ...

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  6. www.vox.com › culture › 23712625The real history of Queen Charlotte, and the problem with ...

    May 5, 2023 · The premiere of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a Shondaland production based on the romance novels by Julia Quinn, tries to cement the public image of the monarch as an undeniably Black...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 2023/05/11 › artsWhat to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story ...

    May 11, 2023 · Corey Mylchreest and India Amarteifio in the Netflix prequel series “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” which creates a partly fictionalized back story for the Charlotte of “Bridgerton.”

  8. juliaquinn.com › series › bridgertonsThe Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn | Author of Historical ...

    In 2023 television pioneer Shonda Rhimes and #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn teamed up to write Queen Charlotte, a novel set in the Bridgerton-verse, inspired by the original series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, created by Shondaland and streaming on Netflix.

  9. www.netflix.com › tudum › articlesIs Queen Charlotte Based on a True Story? History of a ...

    Dive into the history behind the Bridgerton drama.