Daphne Basset (née Bridgerton), Duchess of Hastings (played by Phoebe Dynevor) is the fourth Bridgerton child and eldest daughter of the family.
Daphne Basset (née Bridgerton) is the fourth Bridgerton child and eldest daughter.
Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor)
After she meets Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), they concoct a solution: Faking a courtship. The duo's pretend attachment is intended to make Simon look unavailable and Daphne, desirable.
During season two, Daphne casually reveals baby Basset's first name — Augie — which proves they stuck with Simon's request to follow the Bridgerton family tradition of alphabetizing kids' names.
Duchess Daphne Basset
The fourth child of Viscount Edmund and Viscountess Violet Bridgerton, and the family's eldest daughter. Following an eventful first season as a debutante, Daphne is now married to the sought-after Duke Simon with whom she has a son, August.
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.
Four years later, Daphne gives birth to their fourth child and first son, David. Simon knows he will love his son no matter what, just as he does his three daughters.
Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Hastings
Ultimately, however, The Duke and I see them as a match made in heaven. The pair not only stay together, but they also go on to have five children.
In author Julia Quinn's Bridgerton book series, Kate and Anthony welcome four children: Edmund, Miles, Charlotte and Mary. They also have a dog named Newton.
Well, during a later scene in Queen Charlotte, Violet tells Lady Danbury her son and his wife (Anthony and Kate) are still on their honeymoon, so it's safe to say the newborn is Simon and Daphne's. In the Bridgerton book series by Julia Quinn, Simon and Daphne go onto have five children of their own.
Mostly, the thing that is keeping them apart is their differing views on children – namely, that Daphne wants them while Simon does not. We learn that this is because the Duke had made a vow never to have children, mostly as the ultimate insult to his father – no child means no heir, bringing the Basset line to an end.
According to the novel, To Sir Phillip, With Love, she actually ends up marrying Sir Phillip Crane.
Colin and Penelope have four children together: Agatha, Thomas, Jane, and George.
Eloise Crane (née Bridgerton) is the heroine of the Bridgerton novel To Sir Phillip, With Love.
Colin Bridgerton
The man of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan)'s dreams has quite the scandal in season 1.
Back in April 2021, Regé-Jean Page shocked the ton when he exited Bridgerton after just one season as Duke Simon Basset. As for his reasoning? "I signed up to do a job and I did the job and then I did some other jobs," he recently told Vanity Fair for their Hollywood Issue cover story. "That's it.
In episode seven, Kate, an Indian woman, is unmarried when she sleeps with Anthony, a white Englishman. If Kate and Anthony were to get caught together sans chaperone in late 19th-century London high society, his reputation would recover, while hers would not.
Who does Eloise end up with in the Bridgerton books? The answer, sadly, is not Theo Sharpe. In To Sir Phillip, With Love, the fifth Bridgerton book, Eloise is dubbed a spinster for being single at 28, and she's just fine with that.
Edwina getting a happily ever after is something that happens in Quinn's novel, though it is not Prince Friedrich she marries because he is a character who appears solely in the Bridgerton series. In the books, Edwina ends up marrying Mr. Bagwell, a scholar and second son in his family.
Though they have a deep connection, their marriage is rocky as Simon doesn't want to have children due to his growing up with an abusive father. 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.
Daphne is the fourth child of Edmund and Violet Bridgerton. She was born 18 months after her older brother, Colin. She was ten when Edmund suddenly died and was the one who told her oldest brother, Anthony, the news.
Daphne Bridgerton
Since historically in this time period men often married later than women, the eight-year age difference between Daphne and Simon would have been considered a small one.
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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.
At the Bridgerton ending, Simon and Daphne welcome their first child. This means that even though the viewers did not get to see Daphne being clearly pregnant, she still got pregnant and welcomed her child with Simon towards the ending of season 1.