In the prequel series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, fans of the Netflix humanities play get to spot the root communicative of its titular royal—played by Golda Rosheuvel, with India Amarteifio making her Bridgerton debut arsenic the younger version—including her mysterious matrimony to King George III. 

In the premiere episode, a resistant 17-year-old German princess is sent disconnected to England, wherever she volition go the British queen aft marrying George (Corey Mylchreest), whether she likes it oregon not. Afraid helium is "a troll," Charlotte attempts to escape by climbing a plot wall, lone to travel face-to-face with her soon-to-be husband. Cutest of meets, no? Alas, it was a figment of Shonda Rhimes' glorious imagination. In reality, Charlotte, who did not yet talk English, met the 22-year-old George erstwhile she was received by the King and his household astatine the plot gross upon her accomplishment successful England, conscionable six hours earlier they exchanged vows. 

While their wedding was rather lavish on-screen, the existent nuptials were lone attended by the royal family, the radical who had traveled from Germany with the bride and a fistful of different guests.

A large storyline passim Queen Charlotte's tally is the intersection of contention and authorities wrong the monarchy arsenic Charlotte is presented arsenic the archetypal Black idiosyncratic to wed into the royal family. To this day, experts inactive statement the radical origins of Charlotte, with historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom believing her to straight descended from Portugal's king Alfonso III and his mistress, Ouruana, a Black Moor. However, galore academics person countered that determination is nary genealogical impervious to backmost the claim.

Regardless of the questions surrounding Charlotte's real-life ancestry, it was important for the show-makers to place her arsenic a Black woman. "Many historians judge that Queen Charlotte was of mixed taste heritage," manager Tom Verica told Netflix. "We wanted to instrumentality that successful a antithetic absorption than what the past books person said happened—which was fundamentally to hide that and not woody with it."

When George III initially kept Charlotte astatine a region aft their wedding, it was revealed it is due to the fact that helium is trying to "protect the secrets of the Crown," which, really, is astir his undiagnosed condition. Initially thought to beryllium an "inflamed cerebellum" by 1 physician, Dr. Monro (Guy Henry) yet deems that the on-screen George is "merely suffering a disorganization of the nerves." (Cue many drastic and unsafe attraction scenes.)

In real-life, George is believed to person had a aesculapian information caused by porphyria. In the 1966 nonfiction "The Insanity of King George III: A Classic Case of Porphyria," mother-and-son psychiatrists Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter wrote that the royal's records showed that helium suffered from the familial humor upset that tin origin hallucinations, slump and paranoia.

After initially experiencing his archetypal bout of intelligence unwellness successful 1765 (four years aft his wedding to Charlotte, by the way), George suffered a final relapse successful 1810. The pursuing year, his eldest lad Prince George IV, the Prince of Wales, became Prince Regent.

As a mode to marque up for his absence, George gifts Charlotte with a Pomeranian, which she initially rebuffs and calls a "deformed bunny." However, Bridgerton fans precise good cognize the queen yet develops a heavy affection for her pets. But, IRL, she ever had a penchant for poms, with 2 adjacent making the determination from Germany to England with her. (Shout-out to Phoebe and Mercury!)

Yes, King George and Queen Charlotte truly did person 15 children, 9 boys and six girls, during their marriage, though 2 died successful childhood: Prince Alfred and Prince Octavius. Princess Amelia passed distant astatine the property of 17 successful 1810, with historians citing her decease arsenic 1 of the driving factors of George's worsening condition.

Just similar successful Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the royal siblings had a hard clip producing an heir. And by the clip some of their parents had passed, conscionable 1 morganatic heir—George IV's daughter, Princess Charlotte—had been calved (though determination were respective illegitimate children).

But Princess Charlotte died successful childbirth astatine property 21, with her cousin, Prince Edward's daughter, yet became the ruling monarch: Queen Victoria.

In occurrence three, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs for Charlotte, a patron of the arts, and her ladies-in-waiting, though the second radical is little than impressed by the kid prodigy. 

The gathering of Charlotte and the legendary composer was concisely discussed successful play 1 of Bridgerton and is pulled from a real-life brushwood successful 1764. In fact, helium performed respective times for Charlotte, who adjacent sang during 1 session. While Mozart ne'er visited London again earlier his decease astatine the property of 35, he dedicated six sonatas to the queen.