She lives there with her brother Adolphus until he enters into a betrothal contract with George's mother Augusta, providing that Charlotte will become George's wife and England's next queen. Like the real Charlotte, our Queen Charlotte is from Germany. The voice of Julie Andrews is back as our narrator, who tells us that Charlotte's story is "fiction inspired by fact" - our Charlotte being a heavily reimagined version of the real Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who was married to George III. (One interesting change: Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland production company makes Bridgerton, but she didn't create it and hasn't been the showrunner. This time around, we're flashing back to see the youth of Queen Charlotte, the dry-witted, often icy monarch played by Golda Rosheuvel, who has presided over the marriage market for two Bridgerton seasons. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is intellectual property upon intellectual property - a new series extending a previous series based on Julia Quinn's series of books.
It's not surprising that Bridgerton, with two successful Netflix seasons down and more to come, already has its first spin-off. And if there’s ever been a time to dive into a world that has absolutely no relevance to the past two years, it’s now.India Amarteifio as young Queen Charlotte in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. But the fact that these are amazing books that you won’t be able to put down is reason enough to start, honestly. If you start reading now, you can be one of those people who gets to brag about knowing what’s going to happen next (à la the Game of Thrones book readers). Then the books jump to the oldest Bridgerton child, Anthony (which season 2 of the show will follow), and go down in the order of Benedict, Colin, Eloise, Francesca, Hyacinth, and Gregory for a total of eight books. The first book starts with Daphne and her, er, rough road to marrying the Duke, which was well documented in the first season of the show. There are literally thousands of pages’ worth of promenading, stolen glances, and scandalous hand touching, all under the watchful eye of Lady Whistledown and her gossip paper.Įach one of the eight books in the series follows one of the Bridgerton kids and their (oddly dramatic) love lives. That’s right, in case you didn’t know, Bridgerton is actually based on a series of books by best-selling author Julia Quinn.
If you binge-watched all of Bridgerton (same!) and are now looking to fill the steamy 19th-century English romance void in your life-at least until season 2 hits Netflix on March 25-then don’t worry, because there’s an entire series of books ready to help you do just that.
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