QUEEN CHARLOTTE in Real Life: Recreating her Portraits + Family Tree- Mortal Faces

How Queen Charlotte from Bridgeton Looked in Real Life. I recreate her portraits from a young girl to an elderly lady to see how she might have looked in real life as well as dive into her family tree. Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) is the controversial Black English Queen, featured in the recent Netflix show Bridgeton. Based on her features in her portraits, it is claimed she was England’s first black Queen. She was born to German Royals in the Dutchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz but through her mother’s side her 15th ancestor Madragana was a Moor or Mozarab concubine of King Alfonso III of Portugal. This gave rise to the assumption that her portraits have Africans features because of this ancestor; Others say her ancestor’s DNA would be too diluted over 500 years to play any significant role in Queen Charlotte’s looks. So I’ve recreated her portraits and let me know if you think it is just a coincidence or if she really did look African. Dido Elizabeth Belle (The 18th Century Black