At age 17, she married King George III, six hours after her arrival in London. ![]() The basic facts of Charlotte’s life are well documented: The real Princess Sophie Charlotte was born in 1744 in Mecklenberg-Strelitz, which is now part of Germany. “We are telling the story of how their love united the world in a very small way.” “‘The love of Queen Charlotte and King George united the nation’ - that’s one sentence in Bridgerton, and to me that told a whole world,” Shonda Rhimes, the show’s creator, said in a phone interview last week. They also get plenty of glimpses, of course, into the royal bedchamber. Viewers witness her whirlwind marriage to King George III, meet her delinquent children and come to better understand her motivations and loneliness. ![]() Now she is the subject of her own six-episode Netflix prequel series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, which tells the tale of young Charlotte (India Amarteifio) as she begins her rise to power. As played by Golda Rosheuvel, she is a hard-line matriarch with an ear for gossip and an eye for beauty. With her withering glares and colossal wigs, Queen Charlotte has become a treasured character in the first two seasons of Bridgerton, the steamy hit Netflix series set in an alternate, racially diverse version of Regency Era Britain.
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