Is There a ‘Queen Charlotte’ Season 2? Here’s What We Know Queen Charlotte showrunner Shonda Rhimes previously told EW that the show is still considered a limited series, but she’d never say never: “There have been questions, but I haven’t talked about that. I could live with Charlotte and George forever, but we’ve told a very specific story, a closing ending, that I think is a complete story about this complicated, imperfect love. But I don’t rule anything out because I never know.”
More recently, she told Variety, “I have a hunch about what another story might be, but I don’t know either,” adding that she “just wants it to be really good.”
Queen Charlotte is being produced as a limited series—that is, one episode and done—but if it does get a second season, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time a successful limited series has been continued.
So Queen Charlotte actually died in 1818. The Bridgerton writers have avoided mentioning the in-universe year, but Season 1 confirmed that we’ll be starting with the social season of 1813. Since each new social season starts a year after the last, we know that Season 3 takes place in 1815, and we can assume that Season 4 will start in 1816, just two years before Charlotte is supposed to die.
Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell told Variety that the show may not kill off Charlotte, explaining that the show takes place “in an alternate universe… because of The Great Experiment. [It’s] just in another dimension and maybe Queen Charlotte lives longer in that dimension.”
Shonda may have described the story as “closed-ended,” but there are decades between Charlotte and George of Queen Charlotte and Bridgerton. It’s heartbreaking to see George’s health decline further, but there’s also a lot of love in their story that we can watch unfold. Personally, I’d really like to see Queen Charlotte’s journey through early motherhood and how she becomes a rather distant mother in the “present” timeline.
And while Agatha left on a good note at the end of Queen Charlotte, she’s a very interesting character and any story that explores her new single life would be great.
Meanwhile, as young Violet grows up, we get to see her fall in love with Daddy Bridgerton.
India Amarteifio, who plays young Queen Charlotte, told EW that she would be thrilled to return to a role she played so well: “I love this character so much, she’s amazing. I feel so lucky to be able to portray someone so complex. I really want to do something in this world again.”
Arsema Thomas, who plays young Agatha Danbury, is also excited to return: “I’m obsessed with this character. I never thought I could fall in love like this until I had a child. I feel like I gave birth to a child, and Shonda Rhimes is her father. I’m a mother who would be amazed to be in that space again.”
According to EW, Freddie Dennis and Sam Clemmett are also keen to reprise their roles as Reynolds and Brimsley. Corey Mylchreest has yet to comment on whether or not he’ll return to play young King George, but he seems to enjoy playing the troubled monarch and has great chemistry with the cast, so we can only hope he does.
