https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9081893/Netflix-drama-Bridgerton-depicts-George-IIIs-wife-Queen-Charlotte-black.html
The author of the books which inspired new Netflix drama Bridgerton has backed the decision to cast King George III's wife as black.
Queen Charlotte is played by British actress Golda Rosheuvel, 49, in the new period drama, which has been compared to the enormously popular Downton Abbey.
American author Julia Quinn, whose book series of the same name inspired the show, has backed the 'colour-conscious' casting, saying that 'many historians' believe Queen Charlotte had 'some African background'.
The theory that Charlotte - who was born into an aristocratic German family - had African ancestry is partly based on how she looks in some portraits.
It has also been claimed that she is descended from a mistress of the 13th-Century Portuguese King Alfonso III, who may have been a Moor from North Africa.
However, historian Kate Williams previously said that 'if we class Charlotte as black' because of the alleged distant heritage, 'then ergo Queen Victoria and our entire royal family, [down] to Prince Harry, are also black'.