Queen Charlotte Already Gave Bridgerton Season 3 Its Best Story
Queen Charlotte’s focus on Lady Danbury & Violet Bridgerton offers a potential, very interesting development for the Dowager Viscountess’ future.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’s two timelines gave the Bridgerton spinoff a chance to focus on its main characters in their youth and adulthood, with one storyline already hinting at its potential exploration in Bridgerton season 3. Although addressing the beginning of Queen Charlotte and King George’s romance, Queen Charlotte took just as much care in expanding on Agatha Danbury and Violet Bridgerton’s backgrounds. Queen Charlotte, Lady Danbury, and Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton’s efforts to pair people up on the marriage mart were already highlighted in Bridgerton seasons 1 and 2, but Queen Charlotte made the focus on the three women and the relationships linking them central to the spinoff’s story.
In making Lord Ledger Agatha’s lover, Queen Charlotte introduced an even closer connection between Agatha Danbury and Violet Bridgerton, making their friendship’s history particularly hazy, especially once Violet inferred the past relationship between her father and Agatha. Still, Agatha and Violet’s talks in the later timeline fully highlight the importance of their friendship in both their lives. Indeed, Queen Charlotte 5’s “garden in bloom” exchange not only solidified Agatha and Violet’s relationship as a friendship against the feeble acquaintances usually pursued within the Ton but also hinted at a potential, intriguing storyline involving Violet in Bridgerton season 3.
Queen Charlotte Sets Up A New Romance For Violet In Bridgerton Season 3
Violet Bridgerton’s “garden in bloom” speech in Queen Charlotte episode 5 shows Agatha Danbury and audiences a different side of the Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton. Up until that moment, the Bridgerton matriarch was seen as a maternal figure only, whose potential for romantic love died with her late husband Edmund, in both the Netflix series and the original material in Julia Quinn’s books. However, Violet opening up to Agatha in Queen Charlotte episode 5 puts a potential romance, or even just the pursuit of an affair, in Violet’s future, which could be the most exciting side plot of Bridgerton season 3.
Unlike Julia Quinn’s books, which focused on one Bridgerton sibling at a time without offering side plots much focus, Netflix’s Bridgerton brought various storylines forward in each season. A Violet romance could happen in Bridgerton season 3, along with Colin and Penelope’s romance, especially considering that their engagement and marriage brought much chaos within the Ton, coinciding with the revelation of Penelope being behind Lady Whistledown in the books. A Violet Bridgerton love story could give her some time devoid of Bridgerton drama while simultaneously painting a more complete picture of the character, one that isn’t just a mother figure and for whom love isn’t just in her past.
Will Violet Ever Remarry In Bridgerton?
Although Bridgerton could choose a different path, Violet never remarried in the books. The insights Violet offered her sons and daughters about true love always kept Edmund’s presence alive in the Bridgerton books, making even considering a romance with someone else feel almost impossible. Given how Queen Charlotte’s Agatha story highlights the freedoms associated with widowhood, Violet surrendering them to pursue a marriage would sound implausible, especially with her having six more children whose marriages she can worry about. However, even if a second marriage wasn’t in Violet’s future, Bridgerton could still explore a potential romance for Violet, especially considering the setup Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story provided.
