Since the beginning of the first season, “Bridgerton” has had a pretty Laissez-Faire relationship with history. Sometimes it is quite directly from the real Regency era, while others make its own full alternative history. Due to the lush aesthetics of the show and the romantic genre of the show, this balance works pretty well. However, there is an area in which the series can be inspired from real English history – namely with the character of King George III.
In The main series “Bridgerton”George (played by James Fleet) is much more a background character that is largely due to the mysterious disease that holds it in bed and outside the camera most of the time. Since Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) is only a supportive character on the show, we only get excerpts here and there from her tragic love story. It is clear that George is very uncomfortable and his wife is almost exclusively in his place.
The Prequel Miniserei “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story” Put Charlotte (now from India Amarteifio) and George (Corey Mylchreest) in the spotlight and reveal many more details about your relationship and fighting fighting. To be clear, there is nothing “wrong” here with George. He seems to have one or a few mental illnesses that have proposed the audience to be a variation of the bipolar disorder. In “Queen Charlotte” his condition is made even worse by the barbaric medical practices that have given him. If he is much older in “Bridgon”, Georges reflect dementia. But how exactly are these representations for the true king George?
Like King George III. Was treated in real life
In “Bridgerton” King George usually stays in his own chambers and outside the public, even though he dies with Queen Charlotte from time to time when he feels good enough for it. The Prequel series “Queen Charlotte” shows a much younger George who has to struggle with an early version of similar topics, but the actual history only combines these diagnoses in his life much later. It was in the early 19th century when “Bridgerton” took place and George forced consistent health problems to essentially withdraw from his role as a monarch. He was considered not to be governed and officially replaced by his son in 1811.
“Queen Charlotte” shows George as a young man who is obsessed by science and the stars, but is plagued by psychological struggles. However, the real king Geroge III was probably more concerned with political questions such as the American Revolution. While his reputation as a “crazy king” is exaggerated in view of the modern perspective of his likely mental conditions, his image as a tyrant is not completely unfounded in both domestic and abroad.
The real king George suffered from similar conditions as his bridgerton counter
Due to the time of time and the confidentiality of the royal family, it is impossible to say the potential diseases of the true King George III. This means that modern theories agree quite well with his representation of “Bridgerton”. A 2015 study Performed by the Timothy Peters of the University of Birmingham using “Techniques of Cognitive Archeology” determined the same two previously mentioned conditions. According to the study, “confirm the results of this analysis that the king suffered from the last decade of dementia under the neurotoxicity of its recurring episodes of acute mania from the bipolar disorder of type I.”
In other words, Georges representation in The “bridger tone” showsAlthough obviously dramatized highly, it is actually pretty much on what experts currently believe that this was actually the case. Both in the show and in his time in the real world, George was reflected as “Madness” and the jumping boundaries, which we look at about mental illness in this way and talk about mental illnesses. .
Has the cruel medical treatments of Queen Charlottes really happen about King George?
As already mentioned, the real King George III. Until much later in his life, no major crises for mental health (which we know) than what is shown in the “Bridgerton “ure. Nevertheless, as shown in “Queen Charlotte”, his retreat to the Kew Palace appeared in real life when it felt uncomfortable. These trips simply took place later in his actual life.
As for the cruel and brutal medical treatments that George is exposed to in “Queen Charlotte”, they are not far from what the true king went through when his “madness” began. When the king began to experience episodes, he became through a number of procedures that we now know that they are completely absurd and even harmful. Accordingly Heavenly storyThis included the use of arsenic powder on the king’s skin to burn it and blow it, to plunge it into the ice-cold water. The king was also given emetics to vomit him and take off to give him diarrhea (sic). “Doctor John Monro, played by Guy Henry on” Queen Charlotte “, was also a real person and a” crazy doctor “, since his field was expelled at that time. However, he did not work directly with King George and was actually years before the king’s “madness” died.
Strait jackets and gags were also used at times to “hold back” the king. Although we never know the exact nature of its condition, one can certainly say that George would have been better with a much less violent regime and a better understanding of mental health. Nevertheless, as King of England, it is possible that some of his more aggressive episodes had more to do with his power relationship than with his underlying diseases.
“Bridgerton” and “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” stream on Netflix.
