Here’s when the “present day” scenes of Queen Charlotte, Lady Danbury, and Violet Bridgerton take place in the larger Bridgerton storyline.
The Queen Charlotte prequel features two timelines: One, in the past, follows the love story of a young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) and a young King George III (Corey Mychlreest); the other shows the present-day Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) consulting her friends Lady Danbury (Ajdoah Andoh) and Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemell) about the fact that her children are not married.
But when does this “present-day” timeline of Queen Charlotte take place within the Bridgerton-verse?
One line from Violet Bridgerton in episode five, “Gardens in Bloom,” gives us the viewers an answer: “I am out of arrangements. My household is… Anthony is on his honeymoon,” she tells Lady Danbury, “Gregory has grown what seems, what, twice his height in a month.. Eloise is in some kind of squabble with Penelope, and you know how close those two are. So she is stomping around the house, looking like a cloud of thunder I could go on… Do you understand?”
This refers directly to the end of Bridgerton season two, after we learn Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) have just spent six months honeymooning. It also refers to Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie) discovering her best friend, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) is actually Lady Whistledown, leading to a huge fight between the two women; Although of course Violet does not know the cause of the fight. During their falling out, Eloise tells Penelope she wishes to never speak to her again—so we can guess that this is still while they are fighting.
Since Anthony is on his honeymoon, we can pretty confidently say that Queen Charlotte takes place after the events of Bridgerton season two, but before whatever happens in Bridgerton season three.
