Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte is Getting Her Own Romance Novel by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

The highly palmy Netflix amusement Bridgerton is based disconnected the romance caller series of the aforesaid name, but present the amusement is inspiring a caller caller successful the series! Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is simply a spin-off bid that volition aerial connected Netflix May 4, 2023. To coincide with the caller show, Shonda Rhimes — the shaper of the amusement — has teamed up with Julia Quinn — the writer of the archetypal books — to constitute Queen Charlotte, a prequel exploring the eponymous character’s backstory. It volition beryllium released May 9th and is available for preorder now.

Queen Charlotte is simply a quality archetypal to the Netflix show; she does not look successful immoderate of the Julia Quinn books. The caller and bid volition research her romance with King George and amusement however she became the memorable quality Bridgerton fans are acquainted with. We’ll besides conscionable younger versions of different characters from the series.

About the caller novel, Julia Quinn said,

“Taking Bridgerton from publication to surface was fascinating for maine to watch, and it’s specified an breathtaking situation for maine to instrumentality it successful the different direction, this clip crafting Shonda’s superb imaginativeness into a novel. I’m particularly thrilled to person the accidental to constitute astir Queen Charlotte, who was not successful the archetypal novels. Her quality — and Golda Rosheuvel’s superb portrayal of her — was a circuit de force, and I deliberation readers volition emotion getting a accidental to cognize her much deeply.”

While fans are excited astir the caller content, immoderate expressed disappointment that Quinn was chosen to constitute this tie-in caller and not a Black romance author. Not lone is Queen Charlotte not successful the archetypal novels, but each of the main characters successful the publication bid are white.

Some suggested that the publication could person been written nether a “Bridgerton Presents…” banner with a Black author, overmuch arsenic Rick Riordan’s “Rick Riordan Presents” bid showcases authors penning astir their ain cultures’ mythology.

You tin work much astir the caller and the caller Netflix bid astatine Shondaland.

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