CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The hit Netflix series Bridgerton is bringing renewed attention to the mixed-race British queen our city is named after. Tom Hanchett, the community historian in Charlotte ...

Were Queen Charlotte and King George in love ... who clashed with her mother-in-law over the formal rules of the British aristocracy and found the expectation to bear plenty of heirs exhausting.

Queen Charlotte, née Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg ... and at the age of 17 she did in fact marry King George III, heir to the British Monarchy. According to Historic Royal Palaces, Charlotte ...

Amid all the fiction in "Charlotte" – which tells the origin story of a real British queen but takes extensive liberties – there are a few facts sprinkled in here and there. We separate the ...

And with King George III and Charlotte sharing close ancestors, it’s poor logic because it would mean that swaths of British and European royalty, including Prince Harry and Mary, Queen of Scots ...

Besides being a tragedy, this puts the future of the British monarchy in danger. Although Queen Charlotte and her King George (James Fleet) produced a wild number of heirs, their adult children ...

Netflix tells us: "Queen Charlotte, played by G olda Rosheuvel , is widely regarded to be the first mixed-race member of the British Royal family. She descended from Margarita de Castro y ...

A costume designer for Netflix’s new “Bridgerton” spinoff describes creating clothing for a Black royal, and looking to the House of Windsor for real-life inspiration. By Callie Holtermann ...