Queen Charlotte really was black, Bridgerton star insists

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 8, 2026 | Dolly Busby

[C19fan]

A Bridgerton star has reignited the controversy over whether George III's wife Queen Charlotte, who is depicted in the Regency-era drama, was black in real life.

Adjoa Andoh said of the royal, played by fellow black actress Golda Rosheuvel: 'Queen Charlotte wasn't fictionalised as a woman of colour, she was a woman of colour. You just have to do your historical research.'

The actress – who in 2023 said the Buckingham Palace line-up after King Charles' coronation was 'terribly white' – said the Netflix series gave viewers 'a more realistic version of history'.

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TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: black; dailyfail; race

[central_va]

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha

[Organic Panic]

Everyone historical was black and everything was invented by black Muslims. Or so were told every February. “Don’t know who father was but we wuz all kangz and qwangz”

[rlmorel]

It is totally weird to me. I don’t watch those kinds of things in general, and I find what they try to do (portraying a fantasy in that light) to be repulsive.

I have no problem with fantasy based-entertainment as entertainment, but pushing wokeness and the manipulation of uncritical minds to re-write history is repellent.

[The Great RJ]

I’m certain Charlotte was not only Black, but a left handed lesbian, with multicolored hair and a nose ring as well. If you are going to twist history to fit the woke model, you might as well go all out.

[Menes]

Absolutely true, Redangus.

My family is from Southwestern Germany, too, and my late grandfather did look - in terms of his light tan complexion and blackish-brown hair - almost as if he could have been from Northern Italy - although he had gray eyes - and was much taller than your average Italian🙂

Yours truly is also one of the light tan complected types, but my eyes are light green and my hair is dark blonde. Or rather, it used to be, as it is getting grayer by the day🙂

And Wardaddy is right about history being forced to serve a political purpose. Just because even Central Europeans might be slightly darker, this is no indication that they are black or had black ancestors. Especially since their facial features were/are nothing but European…

This always grinds my gears, as I am a historian by training, and I detest my vocation being forced to do the bidding of some political agenda, especially one which has obviously no basis in fact…

[vaskypilot]

I have a friend born to immigrants from Nuremberg. She has dark hair, dark eyes, and skin that tans easily. Her coloring reminds me of my Italian relatives.

[ansel12]

The left does this with history, they muddy the waters so much for the average person that history becomes impossible to discuss casually since it is so confused and diluted with things like this, there is no white past, no white homeland, nothing was ever white, so Rome, the Greeks, Europe, all the touchstones of Western Civilization and the European people and pre-1970 America is almost impossible to argue with about the modern world and domestic politics and policies.

We older people point out bias and fake facts while forgetting that this is actual “history” to the young of America and Europe, the mass replacement immigrants of our countries and the rest of the world of Africa and the Orient, and Latin America, all this is real to them while the white race is being removed genetically and from history, totally erased, even from memory.

[heartwood]

I didnt say Ramsay is the most accurate. But if you use only him, you could make the argument.

New one drop rule: an ancestor of color 15 generations back ( or the possibility) requires portrayal of the individual as a person of definite darkness.

[Menes]

Yes. That is my great fear, too. He who controls the past, controls the future.
George Orwell was right, unfortunately.

And it seems to be similarly bad in all Western countries. The entire West is in all of this together, as I keep saying…

Nothing short of a miracle will save us, I‘m afraid 😟

[ridesthemiles]

RIGHT-—DAVEY CROCKETT WAS MUSLIM-——

THAT IS AS FAR OUT THERE AS POSSIBLE

[redangus]

I got my dad’s Scots and Irish genes. Brown hair w/reddish overtones now totally silver, reddish beard, blue eyes, freckles as a child and burns easily. Even when I do ‘tan’ it’s reddish not brown.

[Menes]

Fascinating to read🙂

But if the people indigenous to the British Isles had not been given this (gorgeous) very fair skin, they might have suffered from vitamin D deficiency, since the British Isles have always had such cloudy, rainy weather with relatively little sunlight- especially during the winter months.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Yep.

There was a religious component to it, though.

The Mexican Inquisition was still around (kind of) and Mexico had changed the terms for settlers and wanted all the Protestants to convert, the Jews to covert (or leave) and the Catholics to switch bishops out and change dioceses and come under authority of the (crooked) Mexican bishops.

Not talked about much. But this is why the Catholic dioceses (I’m Catholic) are so convoluted in the SW.

The defenders were 100% faithful Catholics, Protestants, and a couple of Jews.

[A_perfect_lady]

I mean, she had 13 kids. Did any of THEM look black? I’m betting NO.

[Reily]

Remember the last season of the Vikings TV series where they had a real Norwegian historical leader as a black woman? I stopped watching it when that happened.

[JayGalt]

https://www.rct.uk/collection/405405/queen-charlotte-1744-1818

13 of her children. The image can be enlarged

https://www.rct.uk/collection/400501/george-iii-queen-charlotte-and-their-six-eldest-children

6 eldest children

The two children who died young were Prince Alfred (1780–1782), who died at age two, and Prince Octavius (1779–1783), who died at age four.