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The novel is penned by original Bridgerton author Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes, the writer-producer behind the Netflix adaptation, and it gives us even more juicy details on the love story that started it all, between King George III and Queen Charlotte. “Taking 'Bridgerton' from book to screen was fascinating for me to watch, and it’s such an exciting challenge for me to take it in the other direction, this time crafting Shonda’s brilliant vision into a novel,” said Quinn. “I’m especially thrilled to have the opportunity to write about Queen Charlotte ... Her character — and Golda Rosheuvel’s brilliant portrayal of her — was a tour de force, and I think readers will love getting a chance to know her more deeply. Having never actually appeared in Quinn’s original books, the character Queen Charlotte was created to build out Shondaland’s on-screen world of Bridgerton. He continued to suffer from periodic bouts of mental illness, and in 1811, his son officially took control of the kingdom, serving as regent for the next nine years.
Lady Danbury’s life and love interests
Many books written about Charlotte nearer to her lifetime are available for free online, including Percy Fitzgerald's The Good Queen Charlotte. For a biography written in the 19th century, it is surprisingly readable. In 2017, Yale University staged an exhibition on three German princesses—Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz—who married into the British royal family.
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Queen Charlotte was the longest-reigning Queen Consort in history. In this overview of the lives of Queen Consorts in England, H. Eugene Lehman even addresses Allan Ramsay's portraits of Charlotte, and the rumors of Charlotte being related to Madragana Ben Aloandro, the mistress of Porturgal's King Afonso III. The Penguin Monarchs series features concise biographies of British monarchs. To further understand Charlotte, again, one must read about George—and Jeremy Black's biography is not to be missed. Throughout the TV version of "Queen Charlotte," we see George and Charlotte's dedicated right-hand men, Reynolds and Brimsley, engaging in an affair of their own.
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Brimsley’s perspective
The book dives deeper into some of our favorite characters, revealing more about how their stories played out when the camera was elsewhere (hi, Brimsley!), while other storylines are glossed over on the page but made a big splash on the small screen. It's a different perspective that expands the "Queen Charlotte" universe even further and lets us dive deeper into what these characters are really thinking and feeling. "Taking Bridgerton from book to screen was fascinating for me to watch, and it's such an exciting challenge for me to take it in the other direction, this time crafting Shonda's brilliant vision into a novel," Quinn said in a statement. Two seasons are soon to become three, but a portion of the Bridgerton fanbase is struggling to mentally shift from the gripping tale in Queen Charlotte back to the cozy romance of the original series.
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The author previously returned to the world of "Bridgerton" in 2021 collection of wisdom from Lady Whistledown, the novels' singular society columnist. There’s an assumption that he was mad, but we don’t know what it was. The research into psychiatric medicine, all of it, was fascinating for me. “What on ea—” She stopped herself before she punned, which struck George as a mild tragedy. He loved the way words clicked together, and if sometimes this meant his sentences were four hundred and sixty-three words long, then that was a problem for someone else.
Previously, she covered culture at Refinery29 and Oprah Daily. Her superpower is matching people up with the perfect book, which she does on her podcast, Blind Date With a Book. This also marks a trajectory from book to screen to book again. Neither George nor Charlotte were in the original novels, meaning Quinn — who created the world of "Bridgerton" — will now be in conversation with the show in a new way. Valentina Valentini is a London-based entertainment, travel, and food writer and is also a senior contributor to Shondaland. Elsewhere, she has written for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Variety, Thrillist, Heated, and The Washington Post.
In the show we see her confide in Lady Danbury about it and that’s when we hear about Agatha’s terrible marriage. However, in the book, it’s made even more clear how close they are. Queen Charlotte tells Lady Danbury about George’s illness – something that only a few people outside of the royal family knew about.
In Queen Charlotte, an arranged marriage between the young German princess and the King of England turns into a tumultuous and then passionate meeting of the minds and a true love match. In real life, the actual Charlotte and George had by all accounts a truly loving marriage despite its having been arranged, one that was certainly viewed as successful at that time because of their many children. The couple was married for 57 years, with Charlotte holding the record for Britain’s longest-serving female consort and the second longest-serving consort in British history (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is the first). The couple ran into challenges because of George’s mental health issues, which caused him to have episodes of mania, increasingly as he got older. Despite this, Charlotte remained a loving and loyal wife, advocating for the king, until his bouts grew so violent in the early 1800s, that that they were forced to live separate lives for her safety.
It's on our list of books about Queen Charlotte because the chapter that focuses on her, "Marriage in a global context," is a fascinating read. The TV version of the story largely skims over the details of George's backstory, from how he became king to how he feels about much of the goings-on. It's not until the fourth episode that we flash back and see the events of the first three episodes again from his perspective, and the "point of view" of the show mostly remains on Charlotte. Elena Nicolaou is a senior entertainment editor at Today.com, where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming.
The only present-day scenes are the bookends featuring Charlotte and George, and young Violet has no role at all in the past timeline. In fact, the entire timeline of the book and the show are a bit muddled. The book explicitly says its present-day scenes (and therefore the main portion of "Bridgerton") take place 56 years after the flashbacks. If that's the case, then Lady Danbury and the queen, among others, should be at least in their 70s in the "present" day, but the show does not depict them as being quite that old.
He didn’t mind Bute; he was mostly helpful, and the two of them shared a common love of natural philosophy and the sciences. Still, she had devoted herself to this country. Princess Augusta had birthed nine princes and princesses, all of whom spoke English as their mother tongue. If his mother now saw herself as wholly British, George supposed that was understandable. It was odd, really, but people seemed to speak more freely in his presence when his eyes were closed, as if somehow he could not hear them. She stared at him, at this man she thought she knew better than anyone.
It cements how much these two women have each other's backs. George’s illness took a toll on his wife and children, too. As novelist and court attendant Fanny Burney recorded in her diary, Charlotte repeatedly asked, “What will become of me? ” Her “desponding” words “implied such complicated apprehensions,” Burney wrote.
Queen Charlotte (subtitled Before the Bridgertons came the love story that changed the ton...) is a tie-in to the Bridgerton spinoff on Netflix, which premiered last week on May 4. The prequel will also focus on a young Queen Charlotte, who will be portrayed by India Amarteifio (and Golda Rosheuvel will reprise her role in the series). But Augusta had been a princess of Great Britain for twenty-five years. She was supposed to have been Queen, but that honor had been denied to her when George’s father, then the Prince of Wales, was hit in the chest by a cricket ball and died shortly thereafter. The Crown would skip a generation, traveling from grandfather to grandson, and with no husband to be King, Augusta could not be Queen.
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