Bridgerton it remains a series of trends on Netflix and viewers can’t get enough of it. The costumes throughout the first season of the series are a big topic. But Queen Charlotte’s famous afro hair is also generating a buzz. It turns out that Queen Bey herself, Beyoncé, is the inspiration for Queen Charlotte’s love.
Queen Carlota in ‘Bridgerton’
Most of the characters in the Bridgerton series are fictional, but Queen Charlotte was a real-life figure and does not appear in the Bridgerton soap operas. Guyanese-British actor Golda Rosheuvel plays Queen Charlotte, who was a real person.
Queen Carlota was the wife of King George III. According to PBS, some historians believe that Queen Carlota was a descendant of a Portuguese royal family of African descent.
Inside Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte is a social butterfly who delights in the scandals of society and is aware of everything that happens in the city. His approval of the women of the city is disputed, although it is difficult to win.
When Queen Carlota’s nephew, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, arrives in the city, she immediately tries to arrange it with Daphne, the most coveted maiden in the city. However, Daphne’s heart is already in love with someone else.
Queen Charlotte’s personal problems are also explored, including what appears to be a drug addiction and her husband’s declining health.
As for what Rosheuvel thinks about her role, she marvels at the idea of a black queen fighting for social change, saying to Insider: “It is so powerful for an actress to have that past and that feeling that a person in the 1800s could be fighting for your people and could have fought for representation. “
Queen Charlotte’s Beyoncé-inspired hair in ‘Bridgerton’
Apparently, Beyoncé’s influence goes beyond today because the hairdressing department is working Bridgerton he felt that one of Beyoncé’s classic looks was suitable for the Regency-style Netflix series.
In one episode, Queen Charlotte stuns with huge afro hair. Per Bridgerton’s for makeup artist and hairdresser Marc Pilcher, the inspiration for the look is courtesy of the famous Beyoncé woman in her first film role.
“When I researched Queen Charlotte and found out she was of African descent, it gave me a lot more space to create her beautiful looks,” Pilcher told Vogue. “I used the silhouettes of the time, but in celebration of their ethnicity, I used locks, braids and styles of Afro texture. His giant Afro was shaped like a Gainsborough wig, but influenced by Beyoncé as Foxxy Cleopatra at Austin Powers in Goldmember. “
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He shared a similar explanation with Essence, saying:
I was choosing some pictures and then I saw Beyoncé Knowles at Austin Powers Goldmember and that’s when I thought, ‘This is what I want.’ I wanted the biggest afro hair anyone had ever seen. That particular wig had four or five wigs all put together. So, we take the wigs for the curls and buy afros and then we straighten them and put them on toothpicks and brush them to get the best volume of afro hair, then we sew them on top of each other just to get that beautiful shape.
Marc Pilcher, ESSENCE Magazine
Pilcher revealed to Essence that the wig took three or four weeks to create, but the result was worth it.