‘Bridgerton’ has two Queen Charlottes and they both rule

Posted on AllSides May 5th, 2023
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Amarteifio was, of course, referring to race, the two-ton topic usually glazed over in historical British dramas in favor of gorgeous gowns and sumptuous pastoral scenes. Colonialism? Slavery? Ick. All that gets brushed under the opulent Persian rug. But in the alternative British Empire of Rhimes’s “Bridger-verse” the Queen of England is a woman of color and the ruling class, known as “the Ton,” looks like an old-school Benetton ad. “I didn’t necessarily care for those stories because I knew that the people who looked like me then were not...

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