Bridgerton Actress Golda Roshuvel looked amazing in a gorgeous dress while stunning on the cover of April Tatler magazine.
The 52-year-old Guyana-British actress is playing Queen Charlotte in the hit drama, which returns to the screens next month.
She explained how she has waited all her life to play the role, saying: “I really believe in waiting, waiting for my time, being confident enough in my craft and who I am as a person to know that it will it so happened that one day someone would see me and say, “Okay, you’re perfect for the game the queen of England “.
Based on a series of books of the same name by Julia Quinn, Netflix the show follows the eight brothers and sisters of the Bridgerton family as they try to find love in Regency-era England.
The actress from Bridgerton Golda Roshuvel looked amazing in a gorgeous dress while stunning on the cover of the April issue of Tatler magazine
Golda grew up in an environment of high society similar to that of Queen Charlotte in Guyana, South America, before the family moved to England when she was five years old.
She explained that every time she dressed as the queen of the 1700s, she “paid tribute” to her mother, who was a secular figure in high society.
When her mother, Judith, visited Golda’s great-uncle, who was bishop of Barbados and later archbishop of Jamaica, she had dinner with Princess Margaret.
“I didn’t need to do a lot of research because I already knew where this character came from – it was my mother’s world and that makes it very easy to play,” she explained.
The 52-year-old Guiana-British actress will reprise her role as Queen Charlotte in the hit drama from the period, which returns to the screens next month (pictured)
“Every time I dress like Queen Charlotte, I pay tribute to my mother. [She came from an] an upper middle class London family.
– Before the war they had economists; their world was a very public school.
“My grandfather was the director of Colet Court [St Paul’s prep school]my great-uncle was the bishop of Barbados, later the archbishop of Jamaica, and when my mother visited him there, he dined with Princess Margaret.
Golda debuted her acting career in the musical production Hair on the West End, as well as appearances in Holby City, Luther and Silent Witness.
Golda, who plays Bridgeton as the husband of George III, Queen Charlotte, is the only character in the series not to appear in Julia Quinn’s original Regency novels – and the only one based on a real man (pictured in Tatler).
She told Tatler that she had dreamed of playing the Queen of England all her life (pictured in the April issue)
In her steady rise to the great role of Queen Charlotte in the global sensation Bridgerton, she explained that she never fully understood whether racism was an obstacle to her career or not, noting that she, as a woman of mixed race, or “is not black. enough “or” too black “for specific roles.
In 2018, Golda auditioned for the role of Lady Danbury, who then went on to Adjoa Andoh.
But shortly after, she was asked to make an audition tape for the Queen, something she said was “the easiest tape I’ve ever made,” and sent it within half an hour.
The idea that Queen Charlotte was black was partly popularized by historians Mario de Valdes and Cocom
Who was Queen Charlotte and why do some claim to be of African descent?
Sophia Charlotte (Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was the youngest daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg and his wife Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in present-day northern Germany, but was then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
The theory that it may have been of African origin was popularized by historians Mario de Valdes and Cocom.
He claims that the portraits of her show have African features that have also been noticed by her contemporaries.
Despite her German legacy, he claims in a blog post about the American investigative program PBS Frontline that she is a distant descendant of the black branch of the Portuguese royal family.
He said she was related to Margarita de Castro, Souza, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman whose own origins lead to King Alfonso III of the 13th century and his lover Madragana.
Valdes claims that Madragana is a Moor and therefore a black African.
However, historian Kate Williams told The Guardian that “if we classify Charlotte as black” because of the alleged distant heritage, “then Queen Victoria and our entire royal family, [down to Prince Harry, are also black’.
Referring to the portrait of Charlotte by Sir Allan Ramsay, Valdes wrote that it had ‘negroid characteristics’ even though ‘Artists of that period were expected to play down, soften or even obliterate undesirable features in a subject’s face.’
He adds: ‘[But] Sir Alan Ramsey was the artist responsible for most of the Queen’s paintings, and his images of her were the most emphatically African of all her portraits.
Valdes suggests that Ramsey was an anti-slavery activist who may have emphasized Charlotte’s true “African characteristics” for political reasons.
But Desmond Shaw-Taylor, the author of the Queen’s photos, had previously said of the same portrait: “Honestly, I can’t see it.”
“We have a version of the same portrait. I watch it quite often and it never occurred to me that she had any African features. It sounds as if the origin is there and it is not impossible that it is reflected in its features, but I cannot see it.
He added that none of Charlotte’s cartoons in the British Museum show her as African. He said they would probably do so if she was “apparently” of African descent.
And her huge role was part of the phenomenon that is Bridgerton – in just four weeks since its release on Christmas 2020, it garnered 82 million views worldwide and won the title of the most watched series on Netflix so far.
Filming for the second season, which airs on March 25, began last spring, something she describes as “the family reuniting” after the third national blockade was finally eased.
Queen Charlotte is the only character in the series not to appear in Julia Quinn’s original novels created by the Regency – and the only one based on a real man.
In the second season, Queen Charlotte witnesses her husband, King George III, goes through a mental illness, directing the audience’s eyes further to her personal life and her inner monologue.
Golda also revealed how her role means that she has to spend two hours a day to fit the queen’s wigs, which are often worn for 11 hours, and that it can take her 20 minutes to make a quick trip to the bathroom. after removing all your corsets and crinolines.
She said: “Our favorite scenes are the prom scenes, because this is the only time we are all together and you can catch up with people’s children, their husbands, their dogs.
“It’s very difficult for directors to chat, chat, chat aside. They say, “Come on!”
Sitting on the fictional throne even made Rochevel a fan of the royal family, she explained.
“I like to look at royalty as people trying to live life, and I think we often miss that,” she said.
“They are placed at the height of perceived unattainability, but for me they are just boys and girls who are trying to live their lives in the best way they can.”
Last year, it was announced that a series of Bridgeton’s prehistory, based on the origins of Queen Charlotte, is being prepared on Netflix by creator Shonda Rhimes.
The story is said to have been written by Rhimes herself and will follow the origins of the young Queen Charlotte, who grew up and became the wife of King George III.
It will also include the origins of other characters portrayed in Bridgerton, namely Violet Bridgeton and Lady Dunbury.
“Many viewers never knew Queen Charlotte’s story before Bridgerton brought her to the world, and I’m excited that this new series will further expand her story and Bridgeton’s world,” Netflix’s head of global television told Deadline. Bela Bajaria.
Add: “Shonda and her team are deliberately building the Bridgerton universe so they can continue to deliver to fans with the same quality and style they love. And as we plan and prepare for all the upcoming seasons now, we also hope to maintain a pace that will keep even the most insatiable viewers completely satisfied.
In an effort to keep up with this staggering pace of production, Deadline also announced that Jess Braunle has been hired as a showrunner for Bridgerton’s third and fourth seasons.
Meanwhile, Chris Van Dussen, who played the role in the first season, will remain on board in the same capacity for the second season.
The April issue of Tatler is available at newsstands and through a digital download on Thursday, March 3.