Is it May 4th yet? Netflix and Shondaland have released the official trailer for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and its giving Royal family drama.
The new series will focus more on Queen Charlotte, Violet Bridgerton, and Lady Danbury. according to a Netflix Press Release.
Did ya’ll know that Queen Charlotte was a real person? According to reports, she lived from 1744 to 1818 and married the heir to the English throne when she was a teenager. In the show she doesn’t seem to have kids of her own, but in real life she had more than 10 children.
As for her race, she was German, but there’s a theory that she also had African ancestry. As in the series, her husband had cognitive issues later in life, though he was quite sane at the time of the revolution.
The new season will have 6 episodes (yep I said 6!) and premieres May 4th on Netflix. Here is the log-line for the new series:
Centered on Queen Charlotte’s rise to prominence and power, this Bridgerton-verse prequel tells the story of how the young Queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton.
