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According to Jada Pinkett-Smith, the producer of the Netflix docudrama "Queen Cleopatra", because "we don't often see or hear stories about black queens", it was important to show a black Cleopatra, even at the expense of historical accuracy.
However, it seems that the creators of "Queen Cleopatra" themselves do not know the history of the great black queens of the Ancient Era: a minimal amount of research would have allowed them to reveal the deeds of an entire lineage of African warrior queens steeped in Egyptian culture, one of whom had given the Romans a run for their money, even going so far as to humiliate Emperor Augustus in a very particular way...