Chance of the calendar, two days before the coronation of Charles III and Camilla, Netflix enthrones, this Thursday, a new royal couple who will ignite the spirits with
Queen Charlotte
, the long-awaited spin-off series from
The Bridgerton Chronicle.
Leaving Regency London in 1820, Shonda Rhimes goes back in time to 1761 and devotes six episodes to the arrival at the English Court of the future indomitable sovereign.
The Bridgerton magic remains intact: a plethora of balls, improbable wigs and hairstyles, majestic basket dresses, sensual frolics.
But this background of crisp frivolity is accompanied by a narrative ambition, an unprecedented psychological gravity.
The one who will rain and shine on good London society and the aristocracy is then only a 17-year-old German princess revolted by the arranged wedding that her brother is preparing for her with the young King of England George III.
Young Charlotte (India Amarteifio) smells a wolf.
Why the heir...
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