Bridgerton fans have been hungering to know who the Queen Charlotte cast will include in the upcoming spin-off series which dropped on May 4, 2023. The wait is over. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is designed to deepen viewers’ understanding of one of our favorite characters by depicting her as a young woman finding her own voice.
“I loved delving into the romance between Charlotte and King George,” showrunner and executive producer Rhimes said in a video for Netflix in February 2023. “I want people to feel like this is what happens with real love. Love is hard. Love is difficult. Love has many layers. The idea that the happy ending that we always talk about for characters doesn’t have to be the obvious one.”
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story depicts Charlotte’s origin story and unveils the love story between Queen Charlotte and the handsome King of England, to whom she is betrothed for better or worse. Read on for more details about the exciting, fresh additions to the Queen Charlotte cast.
Original Bridgerton actors Golda Rosheuval (Queen Charlotte), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury), and Ruth Gemmell (Violet Bridgerton) are all reprising their roles in the Queen Charlotte cast. Performing their younger versions, Netflix announced in the spring of 2022 that British actress India Amarteifio will play the young Charlotte. More main characters are below.
British actress India Amarteifio, raised in Twickenham, plays the young Charlotte. Amarteifio is best known for her role in the British crime drama Line of Duty, and she also appeared on a season 1 episode of Sex Education.
Before she established a screen career, Amarteifio was a child actor in theater. She made her West End debut as Nala in The Lion King in 2011. She has also performed in Matilda the Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Her first screen role was in the BBC One film Gangsta Granny.
Between 2013 and 2022, she starred in The Interceptor, Doctor Who series 9, The Evermoor Chronicles, Line of Duty, The Tunnel, Sex Education, Military Wives and The Midwich Cuckoos. Amarteifio confirmed her role as Queen Charlotte on Instagram, with a black and white photo of herself and Golda Rosheuvel. “No words, really. Thank you to my secret keepers for keeping it a secret. Absolute honor,” she wrote.
Golda Rosheuval shared a gorgeous photo of Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte on her own Instagram. Guyanese-British actress and singer, Rosheuvel is most famed for her role in Bridgerton since 2020 but has also starred in movies and series including Dune (2021), Luther (2010 – 2019), Lady Macbeth (2016), Death in Paradise (2011), Dead Boss (2012), Silent Witness (2008), and Rev (2010-2014).
Corey Mylchreest plays the role of King George III, the monarch of Britain to which Charlotte is married. Per his profile on IMDB, he only has two prior on-screen acting credits to his name; in 2021, he starred in the short film Mars, and in 2022, he appeared in one episode of The Sandman as Adonis. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor’s in Acting at the H Level in 2020.
In an interview with Esquire, the somewhat green actor spoke of how King George was “criminally misunderstood” and that he was overjoyed to have won the role. “I can’t stress enough how in 2015, there were 20,000 pages of George’s private journals and letters—some of them to Charlotte, some to family, hundreds to doctors—that were released by the Royal libraries,” explained Mylchreest, concluding that “The man was amazing.”
He continued: “He was so much more than a madman and tried his whole life to do right by himself, by his family, by his people. He really wanted to do the best for everyone involved, and he wasn’t the most intelligent person but he was really dedicated to trying. I have such a deep love for him,” said Mylchreest.
