![]() ![]() That’s the basis on which Netflix is selling us this series? Granny Haley? There are plenty of other academics here, but none seems to back up Haley’s theory. “And I remember clear as day her saying to me, ‘Shelley, I don’t care what they tell you in school - Cleopatra was black.” And that’s that. I would come home and tell her what I was learning,” she begins. “My grandmother was the inspiration for me. ![]() She was, until recently, president of the Society of Classical Studies, so presumably she will come at this subject with academic rigour. “Blatant historical fallacy,” says Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, pointing out that Cleopatra was descended from the Ptolemies, who were Greek.īut perhaps the show - executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will - will give us detailed evidence to support the theory? Here, in the opening minutes, is Prof Shelley P Haley, from somewhere called Hamilton College. That’s because it portrays Cleopatra as black, not in the spirit of colour-blind casting but as a historical fact. The Egyptian government is not amused by Netflix’s new docudrama series, Queen Cleopatra. ![]()
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