When Daphne angrily accuses Simon of taking advantage of her ignorance, he explains that he refuses to have children because he wants his family title to die with him.
After Daphne and Simon are married, their relationship isn't without its problems. This is mostly because she still wants children while the duke refuses to have them — thanks to the vow he made to his abusive, dying father to never have children so that the bloodline ends with him.
After Daphne and Simon are married, their relationship isn't without its problems. This is mostly because she still wants children while the duke refuses to have them — thanks to the vow he made to his abusive, dying father to never have children so that the bloodline ends with him.
The answer lies in a vow that Simon makes to his father to never sire an heir for the Hastings line. It turns out that Simon has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. In multiple flashbacks, we learn about his cold and cruel father. Simon's father merely wants an heir for the sake of continuing the family name.
The Duke has sworn never to marry or have children in order to end his family line for good, as an act of spite towards his abusive late father. After the couple develop genuine feelings for each other, they marry, despite the Duke telling Daphne that he “can't” have children.
Much like her mother, Daphne follows family tradition and names her five children in alphabetical order. Starting with the couple's first child Amelia, the Hastings give birth to two more daughters, Belinda and Caroline, and then two sons, David and Edward.
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 decides to get on top while having sex with Simon shortly after learning that he lied to her about being unable to have children.
Why it's a problem in Bridgerton. They depict Daphne's frustration and feeling betrayal that Simon lied to her about not being able to have children, but very little to the fact that she assaulted him, and his feelings of hurt and betrayal.
Do Simon and Daphne get a divorce? Bridgerton then ends with the pair of them welcoming their first child, a boy who is one day due to become the next Duke of Hastings. After this rocky start to their marriage, the books reveal that Daphne and Simon stay together for good.
Meanwhile, in Julia Quinn's "The Duke and I," the first book that inspired the Netflix series, Simon and Daphne's first child is a girl they name Amelia.
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.
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).
He is married to Daphne Basset. They faked a courtship in order for Daphne to attract suitors after Lady Whistledown wrote scandalous gossip about her, but eventually fell in love for real.
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.
The plot revolves around Simon's choice not to tell Daphne that he has vowed not to have children.
She's had a period. She cries in her mother's arms. As she sobs, Simon's eyes fill up as he watches the concert. It's a gutting moment for Daphne, and it could potentially mean that her and Simon's marriage will only be in the name.
While Marina drugs herself and tries to abort the baby, Daphne takes herself away from the concert as she starts bleeding. Sobbing, her Mother hurries to comfort Daphne as it turns out she's not pregnant after all.
Though Simon had led Daphne to believe he couldn't have children once they wed because he was infertile, she later found out he was actually childfree by choice, and this resulted in her refusing to let him pull out while they were having sex — his chosen method of birth control.
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.
During the show, main character Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) arranges a fake courtship with the brooding Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings (Rege-Jean Page). The Duke has sworn never to marry or have children in order to end his family line for good, as an act of spite towards his abusive late father.
Violet and her daughter, Hyacinth, survived, but Violet was in a deep state of sadness. She lamented how she wished that she had died in childbirth so she could be with Edmund. She said that Edmund was her air, and without him, there was no air.
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Regé explained himself that he quit because it felt 'like a limited series' to him, however rumours have since emerged that he left because he didn't like what was planned for his character in future. He said after his exit was announced: “It's a one-season arc.
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.