At least Bridgerton is fiction. Mary Queen of Scots was a period piece.
Two of the major characters were also gay for which there is no historical record but I can accept what the screen writer posited about history erasing the possibility.
But the inclusion of black and asian characters reaches the point of diminishing returns... it's radical tokenism.
How many times have straight white actors been cast to play gay or ethnic characters? And I'm not just talking back in the day, I'm talking this century.