PRIM AND IMPROPER
Netflix’s big-budget bonkbuster Bridgerton’s sexiest secrets as it’s on track to be most-watched after The Crown
Kate Jackson
Updated: 29 Dec 2020, 23:37
Kate Jackson
IT has been hailed as Downton Abbey meets Gossip Girl.
Bridgerton, Netflix’s new big-budget series, dropped on Christmas Day and is the gift that has delighted many.
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We give you the run down on all the secrets behind Netflix s steamy drama BridgertonCredit: Netflix
The steamy drama, about wealth, lust and betrayal in Regency-era London in the early 1800s, centres on the posh Bridgerton and Featherington families.
It has reportedly achieved record ratings and is already set for a second series.
The Madness of King George. Together, Queen Charlotte and King George had 15 children.
5. The colour palette for the classic Bridgerton blue used in the series was inspired by the well-known Wedgwood hue. Wedgwood, the fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories brand, began shortly before the Regency period and its wares graced the tables of many an English monarch and other heads of state.
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Bridgerton filmed in a number of spectacular historic locations across the UK. Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington, found herself especially enamoured with one location in particular. “We shot at Hatfield House, which was the house that they filmed
It’s hard not to think about
Downton Abbey when watching
Both are splendid melodramas in quite magnificent costumery and sumptuous locations.
Bridgerton is based on novels by US author Julia Quinn, set in the high society of Regency England, 1813. That’s also the year in which
Pride & Prejudice was published, and the influences are easy to see in a world where keeping up appearances must be maintained at all costs.
Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) is the central character, the pretty but unmarried eldest daughter of wealthy widow Lady Violet (Ruth Gemmell).
Yet as our occasional narrator -more on her shortly- warns us, “The brighter a lady shines the faster she may burn.”
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Shonda Rhimes executive produces the Netflix adaptation of Julia Quinn s titular book series, about the cutthroat marriage market among London elites during the early 1800s.
Courtship is a competitive sport in Netflix s new period drama
Bridgerton, set in Regency-era England. The eligible men and women of the moneyed class are its players, who need every edge beauty, title, wealth and charm to stand out from their rivals. But the attribute that matters most, especially for the female contenders, is reputation. A debutante s standing might be increased by a favorable review from the queen (Golda Rosheuvel) here, an impatient layabout who finds occasional relief from her chronic boredom by betting on which young woman will nab the season s most promising match. But one s rank might also be downgraded by rumors, particularly those spread by Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews), anonymous chronicler of the secrets and scandals of London s upper crust.