While the series portrays young women in their early 20s (the real age of the actresses), in Regency-era London a debutante marrying during her first season out, like the series' protagonist Daphne, would actually have been no more than 16 years old. Today we would consider that to be child marriage.
In the original novel "The Duke & I" written by Julia Quinn, Daphne is 21-years-old. This info will surely give some relief to fans who would have felt uncomfortable with an underage teenager being put on the marriage market.
The Netflix series starts off with experiencing her first ever season which only happens when you turn 21. So this means there is an eight-year age gap between Daphne and Simon. While this may seem like a big age difference, this was very common in the 19th Century.
Daphne Bridgerton age
Knowing she's nine years younger than her eldest sibling, we can work out that Daphne, played by Phoebe Dynevor, is supposed to be 22 years old. Phoebe herself is 26 in real life.
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Everyone's favorite new Bridgerton character traveled all the way from Bombay (present-day Mumbai), India to London, England to find a match for her sister, but ended up getting hitched herself. By her own admission, she was 26 years old, or "six and twenty" as she called it.
In the show, the Bridgerton kids and their friends range from 11 to 31 years old. But many of the actors are significantly older than their characters.
At the beginning of Bridgerton, we learn that Daphne's brother Anthony is 30, nine years older than his sister and a similar age to university friend The Duke.
Eventually, Daphne gets him to see that he doesn't have to repeat the mistakes of his father. Daphne and Simon have five children together: Amelia, Belinda, Caroline, David, and Edward.
The Bridgertons are one of the most powerful families in the ton, partly because of the wealth they hold and have inherited. Careful generational wealth planning means the siblings have lived a life of luxury without having to work even though their father passed away.
"Daphne obviously gave birth at the end of season one, so you will meet the bubba in season two, and it's the prettiest bubba I've ever seen in my life," she said, adding that he's meant to be around 6 months old in the season.
The sweet selfie was shared to Dynevor's Instagram and shows the entire "Bridgerton" cast smiling in full costume with Simone and Daphne's baby front and center. In Julia Quinn's book "The Duke and I," which was the first to inspire the "Bridgerton" series, the Duke and Duchess of Hastings give birth to five children.
By the end of season one, Daphne and Simon have reconciled their differences. Their "happily ever after" ending features the the birth of a new baby, August (nicknamed Auggie).
The duke also jokes, after the birth of their first child in the season's final (and very affecting) scene, that he “believes” the child's name “must begin with the letter A,” as a nod to the first names of the eight Bridgerton children following alphabetic symmetry.
Eloise Bridgerton and Sir Phillip Cane
The printer's assistant with a passion for feminism seems like an ideal mate for Eloise, but it's actually Sir Phillip Crane — the elder brother of Marina Thompson's true love, Sir George — who wins her heart in the books.
The TL;DR is that 18-year-old Anthony returns home from a horseback ride with his brother Benedict to learn that his father has died after being stung by a bee, as witnessed by a young Eloise Bridgerton.
She told her mother she was engaged and her mother assumed it was Prince Friedrich. Daphne then corrected that it was Simon. She also said they were seeking a special license to marry immediately.
The Bridgerton family's muted color palette symbolizes their prominence in society. "They're the prominent family of the social season so we wanted their color palette to be powdery — these pale blues, silvers, and greens that feel like whispers of color," Mirojnick told Vogue.
Courses is an older, fancier way of saying “menses,” or a period. In the Bridgerton time period, the presence or absence of someone's period was essentially the only way of determining whether or not she could bear children or was pregnant, so much is made of courses by the women on the show.
Though Bridgerton shows stereotypical women of the era, it also represents women of strength and independence and the bee is a symbol to remind the audience that, quietly, women hold the true power in society.
Eventually, Simon makes peace with his past and the two reconcile their relationship. The season ends with Daphne giving birth to their first child, a baby boy.
Francesca Bridgerton is the first major character on Netflix's hit Bridgerton to be recast: actress Hannah Dodd will be taking over the role from Ruby Stokes starting in season three.
Eloise does not become pregnant in Quinn's second book, but she does become a stepmum in the fifth book titled To Sir Phillip, With Love, where she is considered a “spinster” because she is unmarried at the age of 28.
Legendary costume designer Ellen Mirojnick has explained that Penelope's attire was heavily influenced by two key factors. Firstly, the fact that she is dishonest and plainly hiding something all through the first season. And secondly, yellow was a popular color for women of high status in the time Bridgerton is set.
According to Julia Quinn's novels, Edwina is 17 years old.
The exterior of the Bridgerton family's Wysteria-clad mansion (said to be on Grosvenor Square in Mayfair) is none other than Ranger's House in Greenwich, south-east London.