While the series did not clearly mention the reason for the Bridgerton children names being in alphabetical order, Julia Quinn explains in the Bridgerton book series, that the naming structure is a mark of peculiarity. It is designed so, to give the family members a unique identity.
The Bridgerton family comprises eight children, alphabetically named in order of oldest to youngest: Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory and Hyacinth. The reason behind the naming tradition? Viscountess Bridgerton explains in the first season she and her late husband found it orderly.
The duke also jokes, after the birth of their first child in the season's final (and very affecting) scene, that he “believes” the child's name “must begin with the letter A,” as a nod to the first names of the eight Bridgerton children following alphabetic symmetry.
If you still are struggling to keep track of all the Bridgertons, here's a trick: Their names are in alphabetical order, from Anthony to Hyacinth. Everyone's favorite matching-making mama, Violet Bridgerton wants one thing for her children: True love, like the kind she had with her husband, Edmund.
As the sixth eldest child, Francesca is the protagonist of the sixth book, When He Was Wicked, and presumably also of season 6.
Colin Bridgerton
The man of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan)'s dreams has quite the scandal in season 1.
Ruby Stokes had to pull out of Bridgerton season 2 due to previous acting engagements with another Netflix series. While she's a recurring actor for Bridgerton, she was a lead in Lockwood & Company, which was filmed at the same time. Francesca Bridgerton has been recast with Anatomy of a Scandal's Hannah Dodd.
During season two, Daphne casually reveals baby Basset's first name — Augie — which proves they stuck with Simon's request to follow the Bridgerton family tradition of alphabetizing kids' names.
Francesca, who was off-screen in Bath for all but one episode of season 1, was intended to have a much larger role this time around. That plan unfortunately ended up being dropped because Ruby Stokes, the actress who plays her, was unable to complete filming due to prior commitments to another Netflix series.
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"I love Francesca, but we lost her midway through season two," Van Dusen told TVLine. "After exhausting all other options, she unfortunately had to come out due to reasons beyond our control. Perhaps season three will be the charm."
In author Julia Quinn's Bridgerton book series, Kate and Anthony welcome four children: Edmund, Miles, Charlotte and Mary. They also have a dog named Newton.
When Daphne angrily accuses Simon of taking advantage of her ignorance, he explains that he refuses to have children because he wants his family title to die with him.
Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Hastings
Ultimately, however, The Duke and I see them as a match made in heaven. The pair not only stay together, but they also go on to have five children.
Addressing a person during the Regency era was a big deal, and it was considered disrespectful to call someone — be it a viscount, duke, baron or otherwise — by their first name. Social rules maintained that only family members would address their siblings, or a parent their child, by their given name.
It's also, possibly, a blunt reference to the fact that "Bridgerton" begins with the letter "B." Lord Edmund and Lady Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) named their eight children in alphabetical order (Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, Hyacinth) so you know they care about initials.
Courses is an older, fancier way of saying “menses,” or a period. In the Bridgerton time period, the presence or absence of someone's period was essentially the only way of determining whether or not she could bear children or was pregnant, so much is made of courses by the women on the show.
In the book, Hyacinth falls for Lady Danbury's grandson, Gareth St. Clair, after they work together on translating his old family diary written in Italian. Through their partnership, they develop feelings for each other and end up getting married.
Lucy marries Gregory Bridgerton. Gregory and Lucinda follow in Edmund and Violet Bridgerton's footsteps and have a big family, nine children: Katharine, Richard, Hermione, Daphne, Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Eloise, and Francesca.
Francesca Bridgerton marries John Stirling, the Earl of Kilmartin and they share a blissful two years together, until he suddenly dies in his sleep. To make matters worse, she's in the early stages of pregnancy and loses the baby shortly after.
The year Colin finally came to his senses and married, Penelope Featherington.
Meanwhile, in Julia Quinn's "The Duke and I," the first book that inspired the Netflix series, Simon and Daphne's first child is a girl they name Amelia. They then have two more daughters, Belinda and Caroline, before welcoming two sons, David and Edward.
Billie is the older sister of Edmund Bridgerton. Although we haven't met Edmund in the 1st Netflix series, he was the head of the Bridgerton household and father to Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory and Hyacinth Bridgerton.
She was heartbroken by Edmund's death, and consoled herself with the hope that she would give birth to a boy that she would name after Edmund. Violet instead gave birth to a girl, but loved her daughter from the moment she was born.
Violet and her daughter, Hyacinth, survived, but Violet was in a deep state of sadness. She lamented how she wished that she had died in childbirth so she could be with Edmund. She said that Edmund was her air, and without him, there was no air.
But during the series, we only meet one of her children, Dominic Danbury, the oldest son and heir, but none of the others. In the present-day "Bridgerton" storyline,...