Rhymes’ production company, Shondaland, is behind the new hit period Netflix drama, “Bridgeton,” which includes black and white members of British upper society in the early 19th century.
The series was created by its director Chris Van Dussen and is based on Julia Quinn’s Regency novel. In the show, Britain’s real life queen Charlotte is portrayed as a Black Woman by actress Golda Rochevell.
Many have long believed that the queen, who married King George III and is the ancestor of the current Queen Elizabeth, was of African descent as part of her images.
Yet there are some who dispute this claim.
“Many historians believe she has some African background.” “It’s a very controversial issue and we can’t test its DNA so I don’t think there will ever be an answer.”
Through history, Queen Charlotte is one of many people whose ethnic identity has been debated.
Here are some others:
Ludwig van Beethoven
The author reports that the theory was started in 1907 by the British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was mixed and said he saw similarities between his characteristics and Beethoven’s similarities.
It’s an idea that Clark says survived for years and was picked up by black activists Stokley Carmichael and Malcolm X.
Clarke wrote, “Was Beethoven black? The evidence is scant and inconclusive.”
“The case is based on two possibilities: that Beethoven’s Flemish ancestors married a Spaniard of African descent, the Blackomors, or that Beethoven’s mother had an affair. But the truth sought by Carmichael and Malcolm XA was not scientific.” Beethoven was black “It was a grand metaphor unsettled and designed to shake off certainty.
J. Edgar Hoover
The first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was known for his work in undermining the civil rights movement and its leaders.
The story quotes Millie McGee, author of “Secrets Uncovered, J. Edgar Hoover – Passing F White and White.” An African-American woman who grew up in McComb, Mississippi, said she was related to Hoover.
Maggie said the research behind it revealed that they were indeed a family.
“Because of Edgar’s anti-black history, I’m not proud of this dynasty, but history should be based on truth,” he said.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Kennedy was Blake’s first lady?
This theory begins with the research of his lineage.
The section notes that “when First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited England in 1961, Cecil Beaton, the Society’s photographer, met her at a dinner party. She commented in her journal that her appearance was” negroid. “
Some historians have also noted that his father, John Vernou Beauvais III, a street stock broker, was known as the “Black Jack”, to which he responded in his own interest.
Clark Gable
Gable was known as the tall, dark and generous “King of Hollywood”.
It has long been debated that he has both black and Native American heritage, which no one has ever fully documented.
But he was known for being an early champion of African American civil rights.
“He looked at me and he read the signs and he got angry like a sailor,” Bluet recalled.
Gable, who was the star of the film, went to the director and the property master and demanded that the signs be removed, otherwise hundreds of black extras would run on the set that day.
Bluvette said the signs have been removed.
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