Yahoo Web Search

  1. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

    Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

    2023 · Romance · 1 season

Search results

  1. Episode Guide

  2. 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. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: With India Amarteifio, Adjoa Andoh, Michelle Fairley, Ruth Gemmell. Betrothed against her will to King George, young Charlotte arrives in London on her wedding day and faces scrutiny from the monarch's cunning mother.

    • (63K)
    • 2023-05-04
    • Drama, History, Romance
    • 58
    • 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...

    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...

    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...

    • Meilan Solly
  4. May 5, 2023 · Here's what's fact and fiction in Netflix's 'Queen Charlotte,' the Bridgerton prequel about the romance between the royal and George III.

    • Cady Lang
  5. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. Watch trailers & learn more.

  6. Feb 14, 2023 · Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, streaming May 4 only on Netflix. Save the date.SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7Abou... A love story that changed the world.

    • 1 min
    • 2M
    • Netflix
  7. The romance that started it all. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, streaming May 4 only on Netflix.SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7About Netflix:Netflix i...

    • 3 min
    • 9.1M
    • Netflix
  1. People also search for