![]() All liberties taken by the author are quite intentional. ![]() (“This is the story of Queen Charlotte from Bridgerton,” reads the opening credits of the show. Queen Charlotte is, yes, very much a television drama. The fate of Charlotte, and the fate of the ’Ton, are inexplicably intertwined as a new multicultural order emerges. (The term “Moor” was initially used in the medieval period to describe a variety of North African groups, later becoming an amorphous term for non-white inhabitants of Europe that does not reflect any specific ethnicity.) It’s the first time a person of color, the viewer learns, has held such a high position in the royal court. ![]() “I did say she had Moor blood, ma’am,” a courtier tells Princess Augusta, the mother of Charlotte's husband-to-be King George III, who expresses concerns about her skin tone. ![]() While the Shonda Rhimes series is known for its color-blind casting, in Queen Charlotte, the character’s ethnicity is very much of the plot. In Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the young version of the eponymous Queen is played by mixed-race actor India Ria Amarteifio. ![]()
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