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- So, was Queen Charlotte a real queen? For this list, we’ll be diving into the life of the historical figure who inspired “Bridgerton”’s reigning monarch. Our countdown includes young Charlotte, family life, the Regency, and more! Do YOU know of any Lady Whistledown worthy tidbits we missed about the Queen? Let us know in the comments!
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This show is FIYAHHHHH!! When Charlotte walked out as a bride I gasped literally, at her hair and beauty!!❤❤❤
Charlotte also refused to let her daughters marry. After she died George IV consented to at least one of them getting married although the daughter was near 40 and past child bearing age (if I remember correctly). Also, George III is now believed not to be Porphyria but possibly some form of Bipolar, it has also been suggested that he had epilepsy and one attack caused a form of dementia hence the major decline.
I wonder if she was worried about passing down her husband's genetics
It was George who did not want his daughters to marry.
@@helene4397I think they both didn't want their daughters to marry, for different reasons. Charlotte's reason is more noble though, because she wanted to spare her daughters the agony of constant pregnancy, knowing what it's like.
I live half an hour away from Neustrelitz, where Charlotte came from - and an hour away from castle Mirow. I was there twice and was really disappointed to see that they didn't show the original castle Mirow in the new series, but another one. Mirow is beautiful! It would have fit so well! And it looks prettier than what they showed in the series!
The story of King George and Queen Charlotte's marriage started so strong and ended so tragically. I hope the spin off goes more into it.
... but love prevailed for George and Charlotte.
Me too. I would love a season 2 of the Queen Charlotte spinoff. 😊
Just finished watching the spinoff series. It was bitter sweet I loved it 💕
Moors were definitely people of African Ancestry. Even Queen Elizabeth stated their was a Queen of mixed heritage in her background.
She wasn’t of mixed heritage we know her family going back several hundred years all white. She also did not speak English and George didn’t giver her first Pomeranian she came from Germany with two
By far my favorite of the 3 shows
Thank you for this - I never knew much about Queen Charlotte but her story is fascinating.
Amazing video of queen charlotte story/life,fantastic job ms mojo.
Best series yet. Loved it and will be watching it again. And it based on the 'real' history. Wish they would do more on other people of color royalties that some seem to want to bury.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! Queen Charlotte's cackle is HiLARIOUS!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some folks CLEARLY miss the fact that Bridgeton and Queen Charlotte are works of FICTION, though the characters are based on some real life people. The glaring racism for a television show so glaring. Sad sad little people. 😂😂
Can't wait to see King Zulu be a white man. Because it can be mostly fiction too if you change things.
😂😂😂😂 ... Queen Charlotte was mulatta. She's a descendant of the African branch of the Portuguese royal family.
@@MegaMaxiepad
Unfortunately for you our history has been completely WHITEWASHED not blackwashed. Charlotte was OBVIOUSLY a throw back from her Portuguese black African royal genetic makeup. As a so called racist white South African, we understand better than 99% of you what a throw back from a few generations back really means. So get over it. Charlotte was mulatta looking. It's clearly written in her description before her marriage to King George. It was the black Africans who brought civilisation to Europe not the other way around. The first kings of Scotland were also pitch black Africans. The king of Croatia in the 10th century was a pitch black. The entire European royalty has black roots.
P.S. The first mulatta queen of England was Philippa of Hainualt in the 1300's. She was married to Edward 111. You can try to pretend that none of this is real but I have spent months in the Great British Library verifying this information. Only the properly educated know the truth.
@@brisalaafricana-py8ee She was nowhere near as dark-skinned as the actress who plays her.
How about fiction based on Nelson Mandela's life, in which he's played by Leonardo DiCaprio?
She had moor heritage, but it was 15 generations and 500 years between her and her moor ancestor.
As a white South African we understand that you can have a genetic throw back of a white or black ancestor from 500 years ago. 😂😂😂😂
Terrible reach, this woman looks like EVERY biracial person we know😂
@@renewilson2540
Exactly
@@renewilson2540 EXACTLY! Her parent or grandparent was very much of African descent!
@@renewilson2540 she does look bi racial
Such a tiny tiny thing but I feel it is my duty as Portuguese to correct it - “Alfonso” is not a Portuguese name - that’s a spaniardized version of the name - it’s actually “Afonso” (with a soft s, like ss) and the name of a lot of our kings 😂
These comments 😂 shout out to shanda!
George walked so Harry could run!
Just a correction there were 13 children to survive, not 12.
I just have to say this is a awesome show... I asked my daughter did she do research or did she just think it was all fiction? You know the rest, history that she never knew 💯☺️💜💜💜
I just got done watching queen Charlotte. It was really good with an unexpected twist at the end
I think it should be a beautiful one and done. Let’s not mess it up. I would prefer she moves on to another prequel of another character.
I literally cannot wait to see this prequel series! Queen charlotte is quite the character so i'm sure the series will make her look amazing when she is young. 💜🖤💜
Your journalism and take on history is poor to say the least. You use 1 historian of a certain persuasion to demonstrate a very poor point. Where's your critical analysis? What sources did you rely on? This depiction is as useful as doing nothing at all. Queen Charlotte Sophia is a real historical figure. If you can't get the facts right and offer some serious critical analysis then I suggest don't bother, you're not up to this level of 'story' telling.
It's Ms Mojo, they do this a lot. Zero quality control, many times the narrators can't even pronounce the topics correctly. My YT was in autplay from History Calling's video of Queen Charlotte and played this after. I try to avoid Ms Mojo
I’ve asked the question of Charlotte’s race recently (this year)
It's bizarre for a real historical figure to be played by someone of a different race.
@@andrewq159 that’s true! But in one portrait of her, she has racially ambiguous features which could be just an artist decision. And yeah it is bizarre for a non-white to portray a white historical figure. They almost did this for Anne Boleyn. Idk what happened to that series. But Bridgerton is fictional so they need to fictionalise each historical figure. And to defend the entertainment industry, they’ve been colourblind casting since the start of the industry 100+ years ago. But back then like British/European/American history, its 99% white
@@andrewq159 what's the different 'race' you refer to? I'm no expert on this but I'm pretty sure there's only the human race anyone can speak of. It's even more bizarre that people cannot see what is so obvious here. If there was no African ancestry for Queen Charlotte then whiteness and eurocentricism would not have enabled any non white imagery of her without a serious challenge and deleting programme. Why don't we ever see 'other' than white imagery of Henry VIII who was around 200 years before Queen Charlotte? History has a way of telling you something and nothing. It's been a good ploy for the German Royal family here.
@@deejayskiii Challenges are dismissed as 'bigotry'.
@@andrewq159 i hope Ryan Gosling acting as Barack Obama Next.
WHAT IF SHE WAS BLACK DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? JUST A QUESTION... WOULD OFFEND?
what if she was an alien from Saturn does it make a difference?
How was she black with white parents white grandparents white great grandparents
I'm really anticipating the spinoff show, it'll be fantastic to see Charlotte in her younger years, as sassy as ever! 💖👑
Casting another black actress to play her?
She would have been much more regal and well spoken.
Until recent misinformation on the Web it was well known in England and especially in London that she was mixed race and brown.
My paternal grandmother was in service in London just after Edwardian times. She was told Victoria was brown. She saw for herself that his brother George, the next king, was "sort of tinged. Swarthy looking. Similar to Mediterranean". He thought the public were curious about his skin tone (most probably weren't as it was more recent history then, and people were told by their own parents and grandparents) and he wrote a letter to the public to explain that Queen Charlotte was mixed race. The information was even on the Web until a couple of years ago.
That is the trouble with the Web. The truth of history can be replaced with a lie or even lack of information by a few keystrokes. Unlike antiquarian first edition books which have become almost impossible to find now.....in fact it's as if someone has been buying them up for book burning bonfires.
Of course Charlotte wasn't the only mixed race royal. Queen Philippa of Hanault (look up her description) and her and Edward's offspring including the ultra savage black Prince Edward they stole Wales for. He had a reputation for riding on horseback and cutting down peasant mothers with babes in arms and pregnant women as they pled for mercy. Remember that girls of around 14 married and became mothers then. So he was murdering kids and their babies. The truth of that is also altered on the Web now. The black Prince was called the Little Black Prince in the French Court where he was raised. John O'Gaunt and all his siblings.
Anne Boleyn is also reputed to have been swarthy.
The red Tudor rose was to signify their colour, as there were no brown roses. The white rose of the Yorkists were to signify white royals. They forced the White Queen into marriage for power, not for peace.
Various others including some forebears of Winston Churchill on the Bentinck side going back a few centuries. Of course after so many generations, he was white.
Remember, the y syyc sons, their angels and ju tes then their later northman (Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Normans) cousins with whom they interbred did marry outside their bloodlines sometimes for power and wealth. The children were betrothed even from birth sometimes. The weaker of the families went to live in the country of the stronger of the two. For example, Philip came to live in England when he married Elisabeth II. Marriage amongst the powerful was never for love. They only want you to believe it was.
Pass this on as it is being fast erased by misinformation by those in control, who don't want the public to know the real truth unless it suits them. Why? Because knowledge is power and they don't want us to have any. Always remember that when they use MSM and the Web, because they control almost all of this too. Whether it's toxic darts, the truth of space (level earth observer channel - I believe we live in a crater as that makes the most sense, because water doesn't stay on a ball), or whether it's anything else, those in control don't want you and your children to have the power even over yourselves.
Germany also 'owned' some African countries and would have wanted to form treatise for power and wealth. Other European countries also.
I am white, but I dislike lies and liars. All the controversy is to cause race wars and ALL wars are bankers wars. They and their royal relatives and politician family members etc. Know that.
Divine and conquer has always been their favourite method. Don't let it work.
Sorry to all who feel color of skin is important. Most anthropologist and credible historian will say race is not considered an issue prior to the 16th century. You will find literature that will describe Germans, Russians and Asians with different colors and grades of hair. Please let us focus on the storyline and leave race to those who care about the race of the blond hair and blue eyed Jesus of Nazareth and the broken nose Spinx.
Okey,so don't get mad if Martin Luther king s played by a white person,and how do you know Jesus(As) was blond?, it doesn't matter until your history is being erased right?
Its funny she was the only queen of Britain that had so many beautiful, happy healthy children, and a king that was happy beyond belief. They shared a marital bed every night and he didn't sleep around. This leads me to believe they were blissfully in love and he never never transmitted STDs to her like many other unhappy royal men that sort after loose women for sex. He was in bliss with his legal royal ❤😂❤performed marriage to a Black woman.
That's a lovely fairytale 😊
@@dannylynch6891 Based off some historical facts.
Mixed, the fact that she was able to have so many children makes me think their is truth to the rumors
@Ms.Bubs4fun it is delusional to think that the British monarchy would have allowed anyone of colour to marry into their family. It didn't happen. Yet many people of colour seem to be labouring under the delusional that this kind of cultural appropriation is alright. Its actually sad and embarrassing that being part of a bunch of inbreeding lunatics is so important to them...
She wasn't black , get off the delusion,and stop letting people erase your blackness and then in the same breath complain about racism ,she wasn't black!
Damn the show really stuck close to the reality..there were so many similarities to the real life counterpart, i just thought it was all made up
She was the second mixed race queen of England (the first for Great Britain). Queen Philippa of Hainualt was the first. She was queen regent in the 1300's. Edward 111 was her English husband. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streliz is a direct descendant of the African branch of the Portuguese royal family. She's responsible for Kew Gardens and the first maternity hospital in England. She had 15 children with her love of her life, King George 111.
she was not mixed race, no evidence that she was
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I'm 100% sure that she's a direct descendant of the African branch of the Portuguese royal family.
@@brisalaafricana-py8ee I'm Portuguese sweat heart, I know my royal families lineage back to front, that ancestor, wife of afonso was a moor(likely Arab middle eastern) not sub saharan African, and she was 500 years before the birth of Charlotte, no historian has backed the claim other than one who used this (theory) a theory that every other historian has debunked over and over again, afrocentrolism will not work here
@@brisalaafricana-py8ee is this another cleopatra "wuz bluk" fact black Americans like to come up with, or Shakespeare "wuz bluk" or mozart "wuz bluk", getting a bit boring and desperate
@@santomarques1718
Cleopatra was Greek but we now know that the ancient Greeks were black too but that doesn't mean that she was a black Greek. Anthropologists are still working on that.
P.S.
I am far too white for you to pull your black crap on me. But I will not accept the WHITEWASHING of true historical facts.
Just like the Christian bible is BLACK AFRICAN HISTORY. Every single character in the bible is a black African including Jesus Christ. Israel was connected to Africa before the Suez Canal was built and Europeans began to whitewash Christianity.
I have tried to remember the queen Charlotte in the bridgerton but I can't pls someone shld trow more light, I really want to connect the story so that I can understand it better.
Reading all the responses it appears to me that some people are afraid, I wonder why?
Afraid of cultural appropriation? Probably!
Thanks 🙏 for cleaning this history up...half blk girls in the castle 🏯🏰.....
She was a light skinned woman. History has it that the artist painted her lighter than her actual colour
The real Queen Charlotte looks biracial as hell! Why are people trying to deny it? You can clearly see it in her portraits that she’s mixed. Smh
I though pink was biracial or mixed when I was kid... But whatever the case she was pretty.
Lol. Racist is why they fight it, just hilarious. You can't change FACTS!
I'd love to have some more "color" in the European royal houses but you could have a super dark African ancestor 300 years before your existance and you'd probably not be able to tell.
Look at Harry and Meghan's kids and they have a black grandparent on their maternal side and damn near the whitest of white on their dad's side. Both kids have ginger hair and are quite pale
Than witch of her parents was black? I am german and she looks like my brother and we don't have african ancestors🤨
SHE WHITE AS WHITE PAPER
with 15 kids clearly he didn't need to stray
A glossy example of the new genre of colour-fiction 😊.
She was definitely mixed you can clearly see that i have an aunt who looks liker her ❤
This comes from the same network that produced a "documentary" where someone states "my granny told me that it don't matter what they teach me in school, Cleopatra was black". Who can take such "documentary" seriously?
and let's not forget the way Jesus looks in movies with some portraying him as white. HOWEVER, Revelation1:14-15 offers a clue that Jesus's skin was a darker hue and that his hair was woolly in texture. The hairs of his head, it says, "were white as white wool, white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace.”
From her portraits, it looks like she was mixed with African facial features but her complexion was light.
was it common for the kids to not make it to adulthood
Everyone is missing this is a work of fiction.
The story is fictional her ethics background is NOT!
People should realize also that a lot of Germans back then (especially in small provinces) had darker skin. Henry VIII’s 4th wife Anne of cleves was also described as having dark skin, regardless of what people perceive to be as race
the white race contains people with different skin tones. This doesnt mean they are not all caucasians.
But history wants us to erase most parts of Blackness. Thanks for sharing
Ok???? The concept race didn’t really back then what they focused on was features , skin tone and origin she has African origins she wasn’t perceived as white !!?!
Queen Charlotte was mixed with rich African heritage, period!!! I sure that may be hard for non blacks to believe. Victims of the re-writing of true History
@@am-cj3xo duh this is exactly what im saying lol
Good to hear about Queen Charlotte👸a her story
Not a long shot at all
Do the top ten worst things D.W. Read has done in Arthur
She was a German princess, daughter of German princes, granddaughter of German princes who, perhaps FIVE centuries before she was born, could have had a great- great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Moorish origin who was the lover of a King of Portugal. Like the stupid average
Americans, you are so uneducated, perhaps you do not know that Moorish only meant that she was a Muslim, not that she was black. she could be from a white Iberian woman of Muslim origin or a North African woman. and no, North Africans like Moroccans or Algerians are not black.
And even though she would have been black, having a black ancestor five centuries before you were born when 99% of the rest of your ancestors are white does not make you mixed
Exactly
I mean...how likely is that two white people get a black child and find out that they had a blaxk ancestor 500 years ago. I know that atavism exists and it's rare. But it's a biological phenomenon. Though, I think the sources around her are so weak and if there would be a truth behind it, why not taking a Portuguese actress.., yet, I'm sick of this desperate search for "representation" with all issues.
Whew! Thank God there are no ancient artifacts/paintings/sculptures depicting what the Moors actually looked like floating around or else people who would sounds just as uneducated as you.
👏👏👏👏
Most historians now believe that George III was bipolar.
was it true she had people petting dogs
wow 14 children LOL
Glad most of the comparisons dont focus on race, the story was much bigger.
If we'd talk about accuracy of race then we'd have to show that the royals' life of over consumption, greed and, hardly ever working, was enabled by the inhumane exploitation of other nations. And that is also a story people dont want to see. So we have a parallel universe, in many ways, dipicted on the show.
What’s a snuff?
Tobacoo, I believe.
Snuff is finely ground tobacco. It was either snuffed into the nostril or tucked into the side of the mouth. It is said that Queen Charlotte was addicted to snuff and had the nickname, Snuffy Charlotte.
@@twobitsmickeymouse3439 thanks 😊
Thank you 😊😊
I already know about her
I can't wait for Bridgerton season 3. I just love that show. I wish the Duke would come back tho.
Yeah I could care less about her race. She’s portrayed as black in the series because it’s fictional and only inspired by the time period. There are tons of black, brown, and Asian characters in the series. It’s fictional and likely based on a historical revision of a better society. Yes, a better society. Our history is racist and disgusting. Shows like this are just imaging a “what if!”
There's plenty of documentation where she is mixed. Not fictional, they have drawings of her in very racist ways.
Lol, she is played mixed because she was😂😅
The real Queen Charlotte was biracial. On a tour at the Levine Museum in Charlotte, NC they tell you that. People will ignore the obvious.
The actress is not black, so she is portrayed as biracial, not black,white people can't have black children, this common sense
@@CrazyPuertoricans111she is not mixed ,she is a quadroon, do you know her parents background? How does a person become mixed?
❌ The Moores aren't black, like most people from the African countries, because they were Persian decent, which are brown skinned with more Middle Eastern features, and the original people of the area are the Berbers who are white with green eyes. So, if the Moores did mix with any Portuguese ancestors of Charlotte, more likely, she would have either looked normal for her race, which is white with green eyes, or with mixed Mediterranean features, based on historical logic... ❌
Y’all this is a FACTIONS show and book. It is inspired by history. If it was based on history, for example do you honestly think the music would be pop music and have romantic sex scenes? No! I would have sexual assault scene and play music from that time period.
Charlotte was real. If they wanted a fictional story, why use a real historical figure?
@@andrewq159 💀 cause they want to and can there’s something called creative freedom maybe u should learn about it
@@andrewq159They do it all the time. 😂 Never learn history from a TV show or movie. Go to one of the many excellent history channels here on TH-cam. History Calling just did an excellent video on The life of the REAL Queen Charlotte.
@@beysmentssecuritycamera6013 Would you like a filmmaker to use the creative freedom to make a film about Nelson & Winnie Mandela, played by Tom Hanks & Cate Blanchett?
Except now, it's debated that porphyria was actually what was wrong and more investigation makes experts believe it was actually bipolar disorder. At least from what I've read in studies and other papers
Except they have found several suffers the last William of Gloucester and bi polar doesn’t include wine coloured urine
Vive NETFLIX ! Il est vraiment dans l'air du temps
Beethoven is said to be of mixed hertaige black mother , it's interesting how Black people seem to be erased from so much of history I think there is a mystery to be solved
May God bless everyone. Have a good day.
Amen!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yall really bothered 🤭😭🤦🏽♀️😒😂 everybody must know Charlotte was of African decent
QUEEN CHARLOTTE WASNT BLACK OR BIRACIAL, some of you are so delusional
As she said, "It still makes for an interesting game of 'what if'."
And *that* is the point of the series, so racists just take a seat and enjoy the storytelling.
Would you simply enjoy the storytelling if a white actor were cast to play Narendra Modi or Rishi Sunak? Would that be great colour-blind casting?
What🤨
@@andrewq159 here we go again… anyways stay crying about it the show was a success .
What if Nelson Mandela had been white?
@@beysmentssecuritycamera6013 They're trying to change history.
Obviously, she had African Blood.
On Hollywood TV surely… next Michael Jordan played by Chris Pratt!
I didn't know there's black Queen in British history!!!! I thought British monarchy are all White before.
No matter what ancestry she had she was white and as a person who really lived they should be portrayed as they were really were. If Queen Charlotte was a fictious person then the only problem would be that a person of colour in the peerage and high society was very rare. Also there were definitely no mixed marriages at this time in England...you would be ostracised if you did marry someone of another race just as you were if you married below your class. This re-writing of history to suit today's idealogies is getting out of hand. The past should remain intact so that we can learn from it.
That’s why I won’t watch this show, it looks silly and logically incorrect. I don’t know whether to feel badly or to start laughing. I wouldn’t mind if it were a Doctor Who episode, but we don’t have to go woke so badly that this forced diversity feels…. Forced.
@@mamc1986 that is why said start of show that is fiction and base on fiction book
Not true. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the daughter of a black slave & white British naval officer Sir John Lindsay. She was raised in England in nobility by her great uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, & his wife Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Mansfield, & educated alongside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray. She married a white man named John Davinier in 1793.
She was mixed. why is it that no other queen's race in the entire monarchy is questioned?
@@rosejames5172 it’s actually not confirmed. It’s based off a 1940 book which the author concluded that the queen must have had a "Negro strain" based on what he described as her "broad nostrils and heavy lips" in her portrait by Allan Ramsay, and a quote by Horace Walpole describing her "nostrils spreading too wide; mouth has the same fault".
It also comes from an interpretation of Baron Stockmar's diary, in which he described Charlotte as "small and crooked, with a real Mulatto face".
PBS writer Mario de Valdes y Cocom claimed that Charlotte had inherited these features from one of her distant ancestors, Madragana (born 1230), based on various historical sources that describe her as Moorish or Mozarab, which he interpreted to mean that she was black.
IF Madragana was black, being fifteen generations removed they wouldn’t share enough genetically to tell.
She had 15 children
She was white, I hate when Netflix, Amazon or others do shit like this. I have nothing against black actresses, but historical figures should be portrayed correctly.
Boooo go home
Now you know how we feel, long Ranger, St. Nick Cleopatra and before I even saw Bridgeton . I knew of her possible ancestry I can tell by her face and features she was mixed race
@@tarajackson4356 Imagine feeling so insecure you need to see yourselves in every historical piece or fiction because it doesn't include you all the time and being spoon fed a lie by white socialists that don't really care except making sure you believe you can't get anywhere without their help.
She was mixed.
@Rose James No she wasn't she was from a German province and she was white.
It's so funny to me how wt people complain about white history being erased by black actors as if wt people haven't done that towards other races in biopic movies over the decades. Ghandi and Cleopatra are just two examples of that.
American independent
It's because We as Black People value white history because that's what was taught to us. White people in the Americas and Europe take out and discredit African history, especially West and Central African history where Our Ancestors derive from. Even though there where Many many kingdoms, empires and general complex societies in West and Central Africa, We were taught that there were nothing but tribes people or hunter & gathers. So We as a people look to white history and try to be apart of that because white people created an insecurity in Black People about Our Own History.
Why would that mean that black actors should be cast to play white historical figures, or vice versa?
@@andrewq159 the point is that there isn't a lot of interest to the executives to do historical stories outside of Europe and Europeans especially when this series was created by an American. Actors need jobs and they want to pull as many people watching as possible so they are going to go for color blind casting to up their viewer count. And they can take it to other countries in the Anglophone that have more non whites or a sizable population of us like the USA.
@@jamescorvus6709 I can't see how casting someone of a different race than the person they're portraying would increase the number of people watching it.
@@andrewq159 it's representation, it's not made to be an accurate show. It's historical fiction so they take liberties with it. Plus would you have complained if the actress playing Charlotte was White Canadian or White Australian of Irish descent? when we know Charlotte was a German. At least the Actress is born in England and has a White English mother exactly how most white English people are born.
@@jamescorvus6709 Looking similar to who they portray is important, which is why that's usually a criteria in casting. Nationality of the actor doesn't matter, but age, race, gender, height, build etc. do.
I read the Bridgerton books and loved them. I watched the first season, but didn't much care for it, and didn't bother with season 2. None of the books have enough material individually for eight episodes. They took was is essentially a Harlequin romance and padded it with a bunch of random sub-plots and characters. The character of Queen Charlotte didn't even appear in the book, she was just mentioned by the characters in connection with an incident where Daphne met her. Adding the character and casting a black actress to play her just seem like stunt casting to me.
She was a mulatto
Welcome to the 21st century. Called biracial
Slur
Snuff?
British Historians don’t mention much about skin color but all mentioned how least attractive (some even go to say ugly) she was…
She’s of mixed as we ALL. GET OVER IT MOJO
I absolutly don't care if she is with because all this série is fictional it's not like it was à docupentary
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese royal house. The riddle of Queen Charlotte's African ancestry was solved inadvertently as the result of an earlier investigation into imagery of the Black magi featured in certain 15th century Flemish paintings of the Christmas narrative. A couple of art historians had suggested that they must have been portraits of actual contemporaries since the artist, without seeing them, would not have been aware of the subtleties in coloring and facial bone structure of individuals of African descent, which these figures invariably represented. Enough evidence has been accumulated to propose that the models were, in all probability, members of the Portuguese de Sousa family. Several relatives had accompanied their cousin Princess Isabella to the Netherlands when she arrived there in 1429 to marry the grand duke, Philip the Good of Burgundy.
"Black branch of the Portuguese royal house" - That's not correct. Charlotte's ancestry comes from a 13th-century moorish princess called Madragana who was captured by Afonso III the king of Portugal. The king fell in love with her but never married her. He made her his mistress and she gave him a son and a daughther. The children were never made royals but were conspicuous married to nobles and their descendants spread out through Europe's noble and royal houses. Because of Madragana every european monarch has moorish/african roots, so if you're going by "branches" then every royal house in Europe has a "black branch".
Honestly, 300 or 500 years after a single black/dark ancestor and lots of very white marriages later, there isn't going to be a lot of the African features left
I like to point to Harry and Meghan. I don't know much about Meghan's ancestry aside from one black and one white parent but her kids are also quite pale and ginger
Please, stop with this ridiculous nonsense. Madragana, lover of Afonso III of Portugal, could have been Mozarab (muslim of european origin) or Moor (of african origin). But even is she was Moor, she was probably of Berber or Arabic origin, as the people of Morocco were then and are today, not of black origin...
@@nunolip "she was probably of Berber or Arabic origin" - You don't know that.
"people of Morocco were then and are today, not of black origin" - SO WRONG!.
First of all, Morocon always had - today as well as then - citizens of Sub-Saharan ethinicity. Afro-Arabs, also called Black Arabs are included in the populations of all of the Maghreb region.
Also, all of the berber kingddoms, throughout history, speciallly before the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region, had relations with Sub-Saharan kingdooms.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, is this idiotic and wrongfull idea that "Berber" is a race of people with just one ethnic feature - mainly light-brow skin or almost white. When in reality the Berbers have intermingled with so many other ethnic groups throught ancient times that their physical characteristics, or skin tones, can be anywhere from white, to near-white to a very dark brown. And one can only just google "black berbers" or just "berbers" so see how much they vary.
So saying that berbers have "no black origin" not only is wrong is every single way, it's also a pathetic attemped to whitewash history and reality.
There are REAL biracial people in this time period with interesting and compelling stories that should be told:
the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, general Thomas-Alexandre Dumas or Abram Petrovich Gannibal.
Why not focus on these people, instead of trying to fabricate black african ascendance where there is none?
Why was a black actress cast to play her? It's like Mr Malcolm's List, in which most of the main characters are non-white despite Britain being over 99% white at the time. If you're doing that, why not cast black actors to play Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare or Prince Charles? Or white actors to play Nelson Mandela, Rishi Sunak or Narendra Modi?
Maybe because she’s a good actress?!?!?!
“Color-blind” casting has been practiced by theatre, opera, and film companies for decades.
@@loveolicity4542 A good, black actor should play Winston Churchill or Prince Charles? A good, white actor should play Nelson Mandela, Narendra Modi or Rishi Sunak?
@@andrewq159 tell me you’re racist without being racist?
Why does it matter?!?! It’s TV!!!
@@beckyunderwood4220 Which is obviously ridiculous. What next - a thin actor cast to play a sumo wrestler?
This show is so goofy…. Can’t get into it.
Charlotte was white.
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Charlotte was not black
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@@virtual30 Charlotte was nowhere near as dark-skinned as Meghan.
@@virtual30 not even.
Mixed race?
@TOJO J honest question. You really think an English King in the 18th century like George would have married a woman of mixed race?
She cetrainly wasn't black or dark skin ,because dark skin were slaves in that era ,there is to much unrealistic things in this series just for diversety
Your delusional, enslaved individuals varied in shades.
She is African dissent. There is no doubt about it.
What.
African - yes. Black - no. If you've been to north Africa you will know.
@@lewis1544 Exactly. But she has ONE ancestor from Spain. Not even from North Africa.
You guys aren't so bright. MOORS (African descent) were all across Spain😂😅
@@renewilson2540 They were kicked out of Spain in 1492 (La Reconquista, El Cid and all that).
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I'm enjoying the show, but as with everything Netflix does, it just can't keep the 20th century "poc oppresion" narrative out of it. Sheesh. Queen Charlotte wasn't blck, she likely had a spanish ancestor 15 generations ago. Making the Royals rcist against her is just stupid and detracts from the storyline.
What's with the blackwashing?
she's too light skinned. Should have cast Wesley Snipes in drag to play her. Much more inclusive IMO.
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CHARLOTTE IS NOT BLACK. MY GHADDDDD
She sure as hell wasn’t black.
Yet we're downvoted for mentioning that very relevant point.
And you have no imagination
The real Queen Charlotte was supposedly directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese royal house, but there are some questions about how far removed she was from her African roots as some historians debate over whether or not she was actually Britians first black queen. And seeing/considering she lived in the 18th century we may never know a definitive answer
@@stormybierre5280 yes there is dispute about her ancestry however that would make her either a quarter or a sixteenth black. Queen Charlotte was white and German. Let's be honest here the slave trade wasn't abolished by the English until 1807. Charlotte and King George III were married in 1761. So the point of having a queen of color wasn't a fathomable idea at the time. As a person who loves history I love the Bridgerton is playing up her ancestry and the idea, however when it comes to actual history which you are discussing no black person today would claim a person who is white who is 25% or 16% black as a black person. I would know as I'm 25% Ghanaian.
@Lilly Yarney not soud rude but why I said she may or may not be black is becuase msmojo in couple of videos that cover bridgerton paint her black when it is debatable if she was, slave trade or not.
i am glad that she was race swapped for no reason
Queen Charlotte not black