I am twenty-five years older than Cleopatra was when she died. I’m not black either. I don’t care really, if it’s fiction, do what you want, but if you call it history, it should be history, so Netflix can keep their black Anne Boleyn and their black Cleopatra. And yes, I’d object just as much if biographies of Martin Luther King Jnr or Louis Armstrong portrayed them as white men.

Egyptians object too …