The rewriting of History for "modern audience" is a problem.
Strangely enough, though not "that" strange, it tends to come from countries that very much in line with the entire woke-liberal BS. And it, for some reason, always swings the same way: X individual, Y group of people, etc... were black.
If *main character* was a white man: switched into a black woman, or the man will be gay and stuck in a wheelchair.
If *main character* was a white woman: make her a black woman, and also gay.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against creative and artistic freedom here and there, as long as it is done right.
Denzel Washington made a great Macbeth, for instance. And though there may be other instances, that's the only one coming to mind at the moment...
But when it comes to Historical characters, people who actually existed... sorry but no. And the BBC, Netflix & cie have quite the past with that kind of thing:
Queen Charlotte isn't black.
King Edward VI isn't a gay, black man stuck in a wheelchair.
Alienor d'Aquitaine isn't black.
Anne Boleyn isn't black.
Newton isn't from the Caribbean.
Jarl Haakon isn't a black woman.
Achilles isn't black.