'Queen Charlotte': Will There Be a Season 2?

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• What Did The Birth Of The Royal Heir In The End Imply?
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• Shonda Rhimes Reportedly “Committed” To Adapting All Eight ‘Bridgerton’ Novels For Netflix Series
• What Happened To Reynolds And Brimsley? 'Queen Charlotte' Ending Explained
• Real-Life Danilo In ‘Beautiful Rebel’ Explained: Is Gianna Nannini’s Father Dead?
• ‘Bridgerton’ Creator Chris Van Dusen, A24 & Pacesetter Developing ‘Girl Abroad’ Series

The show is not just about King George III and Queen Charlotte’s love story. It’s also about Brimsley and Reynolds’s relationship; Lady Danbury’s suitors and lovers; Violet, aka Mama Bridgerton, getting her groove back; and the queen pressuring her children to give her an heir. Queen Charlotte also provided an origin story for the more or less imagined Great Experiment, which led to an abundance of racial diversity in Bridgerton’s high society. Watching all of those threads get tied up is pretty exhilarating.

What Did The Birth Of The Royal Heir In The End Imply?

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In the present Queen Charlotte timeline, Lady Danbury encourages Violet to enjoy every moment of her life and not to spend it all mourning the loss of Edmund. When Violet is looking at Lady Danbury’s mantle, she spots a birthday hat that her father used to make. Charlotte was ultimately successful in convincing her children to procreate.

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He recognizes something in this gesture, and so he drops down to meet her, their bodies now obscured from the glare of the heavens. It is in this position that Charlotte shares her ecstatic news, that his line will continue on with an heir, and George reminds her, gently, that this is not the whole truth, is it? And so Agatha turns her attention to matters in which she holds more sway. She wants to retain her title, and for it to be passed down to her children and beyond.

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The two dream of spending their lives together after the reunion of Charlotte and George, but in the end, we witness Brimsley dancing alone in the palace garden. Maybe the Queen’s decision to stay away from her husband, in a way, affected their relationship. It is also possible that Reynolds is no longer there to dance with Brimsley, and all he has are the sweet memories of his man. Back in the Bridgerton timeline, the grown-up queen and her adult children sit for a portrait. Prince George and Princess Elizabeth confront her about their own fertility struggles, the cruelty of the queen’s baby contest, and her lack of warmth as a mother. Then at the end of the episode, Prince Edward “wins” the competition.

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She was quite disheartened to realize that none of her fifteen children had tried to produce an heir to the throne. She gave an ultimatum to her sons to find their match, and if they failed, she decided to choose wives for them. During the matchmaking process, her children complained that she was more of a queen and less of a mother to them. She was always so caught up in her duties that she never got the opportunity to develop an emotional bond with her children.

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Princess Augusta shares a moment with Charlotte at the ball. She’s only ever wanted George to be happy, and she knows that he is with Charlotte. As Charlotte and George dance the night away, Brimsley and Reynolds do the same thing away from the crowd. Years later, Brimsley is dancing, but this time he’s alone.

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Queen Charlotte, however, reveals that the Bridgerton matriarch may just have some yearnings of her own — and they’re so strong she’s this close to asking a footman to lay on top of her just to feel something. Young Lady Danbury finds a solution when Queen Charlotte’s brother, Adolphus (Tunji Kasim), proposes and offers to whisk her away to live as a royal in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After a lifetime of breathing someone else’s air, she insists on her own independence. Many question young Lady Danbury’s choice, but flash-forwards to the Regency era prove she made the correct decision. Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) is a rich and popular widow who throws the best parties of the ton. In the Queen Charlotte premiere, the titular royal’s only grandchild, Princess Charlotte, dies in the Regency era.

However, the scene cuts to Bridgerton-era Brimsley dancing outside the palace on his own. Charlotte finds him in the bedroom they once shared, scribbling on the walls and conversing with the sky. Understanding him—seeing him, not merely observing him—she gets to her knees and ducks underneath the four-poster bed, asking not for her king or even her husband but for “farmer George.” Just George.

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Lady Danbury could sense that the marriage was far from okay. She explained to the Queen in detail about the marital act and the importance of consummating their marriage. The great experiment could fail if she was ineffective in performing her duty as Queen of England. One night, the King returned to the palace to have dinner with his wife, and they eventually consummated their marriage. Charlotte was ready to forgive the King for his absence, but the moment she overheard his conversation with his mother, she decided against it. Since he considered the act a duty to his country, she, too, decided to be unemotional about it.

Augusta is both surprised and, briefly, disgusted, though her disgust soon morphs into something like recognition. Not empathy, to be clear, but perhaps acknowledgment. She, too, has had to to align herself with the whims of men in order to survive their games. She slips her young “adversary” a dash of pear brandy and urges Agatha not to give in. “Cover your bruises,” she orders, “and endure.” And so, when Adolphus does eventually propose, Agatha does not immediately answer.

By the time they part ways, it’s clear they will not meet again. As Brimsley tells her in Episode 6, her life is dedicated to serving King George. “She is frozen in time because it’s almost like he’s died, but he hasn’t. And, yet, she is still so thankful she never went over that wall.

Later, she breaks down in tears in front of Princess Augusta, who wants none of this. Princess Augusta tells Lady Danbury that she’s endured hardships and “found a way” to control her own fate. Do not lose control of your fate, Agatha,” she stresses. A suspicious Violet inquires about Lady Danbury mentioning her “garden blooming” after Lord Danbury died. And that is all I shall say.” Lady Danbury knows that Violet has figured out her connection to her father, so she brings up her romance with Adolphus, Charlotte’s brother. While we do not see much of the older King George (James Fleet) in "Queen Charlotte," the series delves into the king's history with his illness in the younger timeline.

Away from the palace, we watch a young Agatha Danbury (Arsema Thomas) meet with Lord Ledger, the much older man with whom she’s been, uh, strolling for a few weeks now. Their most recent stroll having been particularly productive, she’s eager to further explore the blooms of her own garden. But upon their next meeting, he arrives with a third wheel in tow. Lo and behold—it’s his daughter, a young Violet Bridgerton (Connie Jenkins-Greig).

Instead, this arrangement allows the royal couple to enjoy their marriage despite King George’s medical struggles, giving the pair the “very best half” of a life together. Or, as Rosheuvel puts it, the physical separation allows King George to deal with his struggles. “I always find it really difficult to explain what love is. It really is a deeper connection with that person, an understanding that when you look at them, it’s there,” Rosheuvel says. The glances between Queen Charlotte and King George — represented in both eras of their marriage — captures that emotion. Throughout the series, we learn more about the health of King George as his sporadic fits can’t be contained any longer as Queen Charlotte finds out.

His wife’s intuition that the baby would be a girl is correct, as she would give birth to one of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Victoria I. Sam is an assistant news editor at Cosmo, covering all things pop culture, entertainment, and celebrity news. She previously covered those same topics along with health, lifestyle, and beauty at Seventeen.