Bridgerton fans, you’ve been cordially invited to meet the cast of Netflix’s upcoming Queen Charlotte-centric spin-off – including some familiar faces.
Golda Rosheuval (Queen Charlotte), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Agatha Danbury) and Ruth Gemmell (Lady Violet Bridgerton) will all reprise their roles in the as yet untitled prequel, TVLine has learned, along with a host of newcomers led by Michelle Fairley, aka Game of Thrones’ Catelyn Stark as Princess Augusta. “Determined to uphold her family’s power, the Princess Dowager is doing everything to secure her son’s place as monarch in the midst of a changing, modernizing Britain,” reads the official description.
Also in the spinoff cast: India Amarteifio (Sex Education) as a young Queen Charlotte, who “arrives in London” and becomes engaged to the king “only to find she wasn’t exactly what the royals expected”; Corey Mylchreest as Young King George, who has been described as “handsome, charismatic and a bit mysterious”; and newcomer Arsema Thomas as young Agatha Danbury, who “becomes a guiding star for the new queen as she finds her own voice and power, which we will soon recognize as Bridgerton’s iconic Lady Danbury.”
Also starring are Sam Clemmett (The Musketeers) as Young Brimsley, Richard Cunningham (The Royals) as Lord Bute, Tunji Kasim (Nancy Drew) as Adolphus, Rob Maloney as the Royal Doctor, Cyril Nri (The Witches) as Lord Danbury and Hugh Sachs reprises his Bridgerton role as an older version of Brimsley.
Shonda Rhimes will serve as writer and showrunner for the limited series, which “tells the story of how the young Queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and societal change, creating the world of clay used by the characters in Bridgerton Season 2 of the original Bridgerton debuted on Netflix last week and rocketed to the top of the streaming charts with 193 million hours watched in the first three days of release.