![]() ![]() Here, she is a Black teenager whose interracial marriage to the mentally ill King George III (Corey Mylchreest in youth James Fleet as the older version) led to an event called “the Great Experiment.” In Queen Charlotte and the original Bridgerton series, the Great Experiment refers to Britain’s (clearly fictional) decision to fully integrate Black people and other people of color into their society, including the noble class. The prequel series gives Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio in youth and Golda Rosheuvel in her later years) the spotlight. 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 woman. ![]() ![]() And now, millions more will believe it too. But even though the evidence for Charlotte’s Black heritage is weak, many do genuinely believe it. ![]() The first time I heard someone call Charlotte, Queen Consort to King George III, the “first Black queen of England,” I thought they were taking the piss. ![]()
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