

Given that season 1 largely followed the events in the first Bridgerton book, The Duke and I, the next installment of the TV series is expected to follow the framework of Julia's second novel, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and so on. You can keep yourself immersed in the scandalous world of Lady Whistledown and the Featheringtons until season 3 comes out by reading Julia Quinn's eight romance novels that inspired the Shonda Rhimes-produced show. If you find yourself wanting more in-depth background on the characters, there’s a way to find out what happens next in Bridgerton. Now, more than a year later, the second season arrives on March 25. The good news kept on coming when Netflix announced that Bridgerton season 2 was officially happening. After the period drama premiered on Christmas Day 2020, it quickly rose up in the streamer’s history books as one of the most watched shows with a whopping 82 million viewers tuning in. Just like in the show, The Duke and I centers around the amiable debutante Daphne Bridgerton and the handsome, yet callous, Duke of Hastings (also called Simon Basset). Bridgerton took Netflix and the internet by storm. And amidst the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. It wasn't the plan, but it seems she's falling for the duke, for real. Maybe it's his devilish smile, certainly it's the way his eyes seem to burn every time he looks at her. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it's hard to remember that their courtship is a complete sham. The first book focuses on Daphne, the fourth of eight siblings in the Bridgerton family, and the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset. Their ruse works like a charm - at first. The Duke and I is the first book to Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series.

And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. Season 1 breakout stars Phoebe Dynevor (Daphne Bridgerton) and Reg-Jean Page (Simon, the Duke of Hastings) will not appear in the upcoming season. But the two of them know the truth - it's all an elaborate plan to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. Can there be any greater challenge to London's Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke? Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1813 By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister, the lovely - and almost-on-the-shelf - Daphne Bridgerton. This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke: welcome to the ballrooms of Regency London.

The first novel in Julia Quinn's worldwide bestselling Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
