Bridgerton's True Story Should Mean A Huge Queen Charlotte Tragedy Is Coming
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Bridgerton season 2.
Bridgerton’s true story should mean a huge Queen Charlotte tragedy is coming. While the majority of the characters in Netflix’s romance series are fictional, Queen Charlotte and her husband, King George III, are based on real-life monarchs who existed during the Regency era. And if Bridgerton is indeed to follow the path of their real-life counterparts, the fictional version of Queen Charlotte might be facing a tragedy sooner rather than later.
In Bridgerton, every young woman’s social debut happens in front of the queen, who is intent on picking one to crown her “diamond” of the season. In season 2, Queen Charlotte chooses Edwina Sharma as such, drawing the attention of the ton’s most eligible bachelors. Behind closed doors, however, Queen Charlotte faces a personal dilemma. Husband King George III had a mental illness — which historians suggest was likely bipolar disorder or the blood disease porphyria — that kept him secluded in the castle, away from everyone, including Queen Charlotte. As Bridgerton goes on, fans will likely witness King George III’s mental deterioration. However, if the series keeps (very, very loosely) to the monarchs’ history, then it’s Queen Charlotte’s death that will come first.
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Bridgerton season 2 is set in 1814. Just four years later, in 1818, Queen Charlotte died at the age of 74. Although the Netflix series doesn’t engage much with the queen’s children — she had 15, 13 of which survived into adulthood — Charlotte dies in the presence of her eldest son, the Prince Regent George IV. What’s more, she wasn’t the most popular during the final years of her
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