Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story!
Seemingly creating a Bridgerton universe plot hole, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story offers a questionable detail about the royal brood, which has a relatively simple answer. As a means to keep audiences entertained while awaiting Bridgerton season 3, Queen Charlotte expands upon Netflix’s spicy period drama by exploring Queen Charlotte (India Ria Amarteifio) and King George’s (Corey Mylchreest) early years of marriage. Apart from providing a nuanced portrait of Golda Rosheuvel’s Queen Charlotte, the Bridgerton spinoff also showcases backstories for other older members of the ton like Ruth Gemmel’s Dowager Viscountess Violet Bridgerton and Adjoa Andoh’s Lady Agatha Danbury, among others.
Notably known to play matchmaker on Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte is highly involved in the social season’s proposals, specifically with regard to her favorite debutante or the season’s diamond. Considering that the queen has a great number of children, it’s quite surprising that she hasn’t suggested a match between any of her sons to any of Bridgerton’s season diamonds (Phoebe Dynevor’s Daphne Bridgerton and Charithra Chandran’s Edwina Sharma) despite providing her nephew, Prince Friedrich (Freddie Stroma) the opportunity to court them. And while this, indeed, makes for a mind-boggling inconsistency, there is a perfectly acceptable and rational reason for Queen Charlotte ignoring her children’s love lives.