Breaking Down the Bridgerton Family Tree
This post contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Bridgerton Season 3
Netflix just dropped the first half of Season 3 of Bridgerton. Like with any installment of the steamy Regency drama, expect another courting season, another romance hindered by a dark secret and/or past trauma, and a resolution that ends—eventually—with yet another Bridgerton baby.
Though not quite as complex as the lineage that determines who sits on the Iron Throne, the Bridgerton family tree grows new branches with each season. And things are getting confusing. It can be hard to keep track of all eight (eight!) Bridgerton children, their various suitors, and all of their respectively families. Add the royal family from the spinoff series Queen Charlotte to the mix, and now you’re tracking dozens of characters’ love stories.
Season 3 also turns the camera away from the Bridgerton family—at least for a time—to focus on their next door neighbor, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan). Penelope, as we know, secretly writes a gossipy newsletter under the pen name Lady Whistledown. This season, Penelope, so often a wallflow…
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