In the trailer for Netflix's Bridgerton prequel bid Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story—arriving May 4—a young Queen Charlotte has immoderate precise dense royal value connected her shoulders.
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It's clip for a royal awakening.
In the March 23 trailer for Netflix's Bridgerton prequel bid Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Charlotte (India Amarteifio) is confused astir wherefore she, of each people, has been chosen to ascend to the throne.
"There is crushed they wanted me," she asks her member Adolphus (Tunji Kasim). "Why me?"
Adolphus attempts to beryllium realistic astir the situation, telling his sister, "Charlotte, determination are worse fates than marrying the King of England."
We wouldn't beryllium truthful sure, Adolphus.
"It is clip we were agreed arsenic a society," Princess Augusta (Michelle Fairley) tells her soon-to-be daughter-in-law. "You volition marque babies. As galore babies arsenic imaginable for my son."
She's not wasting immoderate time.
After Charlotte and King George (Corey Mylchreest) person a precise awkward introduction—in which she is caught, rather literally, trying to ascent up connected a plot partition to get a glimpse of him—George is inactive persistent astir spending clip with her.
"I recognize you person nary crushed to similar me," George tells Charlotte. "But if you volition springiness maine 1 evening of your time, it mightiness marque you hatred maine a small spot less."
Charlotte agrees, and George uses it arsenic an accidental to amusement disconnected his massively ample telescope. Classic King move.
However, things don't enactment starry for long.
"Be careful, you're the archetypal of your kind," Agatha Danbury (Arsema Thomas) reminds Charlotte. "You indispensable unafraid your position."
As unit mounts, Charlotte and George's narration begins to unravel.
"I request to cognize what is going connected astatine Buckingham House," Princess Augusta screams astatine Charlotte. "Your matrimony cannot spell wrong!"
Ugh, mothers-in-law.
When Charlotte questions George astir his behavior, helium responds curtly, "I don't privation to combat with you."
That doesn't beryllium good with the Queen.
"I privation to combat with you," Charlotte challenges him. "Fight with me! Fight for me!"
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story—which besides stars Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh and Ruth Gemmell reprising their Bridgerton roles arsenic older Queen Charlotte, Lady Agatha Danbury and Lady Violet Bridgerton, respectively—premieres May 4 connected Netflix.
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