Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte Prequel Will Make Her Story Even More Tragic
The Bridgerton prequel will focus on Queen Charlotte, and will likely explore why her relationship with her husband, George, has become so strained.
Queen Charlotte is one of the most prominent secondary characters in Bridgerton, and the upcoming prequel focusing on her life and early romance with King George is set to make her existing story even sadder. In both Bridgerton seasons, Charlotte has proven to be a delightful character, at once dictatorial and yet compassionate when the mood strikes her. She seems to have a particular soft spot for young romance, and some of this can be explained by her love for her ailing husband, King George.
Although she is a relatively minor character in the original Bridgerton, it’s clear how much she still cares for George. This love is tragic because the show implies the aging king is unwell, struggling to distinguish between the past and the present. Throughout Queen Charlotte’s appearances on Bridgerton, she has shown a taciturn – and sometimes even stern – face to the world. However, it’s illustrated how much her husband’s illness has cost her as she watches him slip further away from the life and love they have built together.
Understanding Queen Charlotte & King George’s Love Makes Bridgerton Sadder
Among other storylines, Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte prequel will focus on the courtship between Charlotte and George, showing how they came to love one another as both husband and wife and king and queen. During Bridgerton season 1 and season 2, viewers only rarely see King George and thus have been limited to experiencing the couple’s tragedy at a remove. By moving Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and George romance firmly into the foreground, however, the prequel will force viewers to confront how sad it is that, as they grow older, their love is inevitably blighted by the king’s slide into senility.
As a result, the prequel will give viewers a richer and more nuanced portrait of Queen Charlotte. In particular, it will show just how much her icy exterior is a defense mechanism, a means of dealing with the fact that the love of her life has become a shadow of his former self. Bridgerton has already provided glimpses of this particular dynamic, so it will be fascinating to see how the prequel continues to add new shades and depth to her already rich characterization.
Seeing Charlotte And George As Young People Will Add New Layers To Bridgerton
Bridgerton seasons 1 and 2 have been mostly fun and frothy. This is fundamentally a romance, and so most of the emphasis has been on the joy that love brings to young people. However, seeing the courtship of George and Queen Charlotte will add a new layer to the story. Given how tragically strained their relationship is in the main Bridgerton show, seeing them as young lovers will be compelling in its own right but also provide nuance to their complex situation in Bridgerton.
While viewers will no doubt be invited to invest in their romance, it will be impossible for them not to be aware of what lies in waiting for the couple in the future. However much they might be happy in the prequel’s present, the tragedy of what is to come will always hang over their story. A Bridgerton Queen Charlotte prequel is already of great fascination for her fans, and this presents a golden opportunity to show the particular struggles a young royal of color faced in the alternate Europe Bridgerton has created.
