Welp there’s my new in built excuse when I forget someone’s name

QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY — 1x06: “Crown Jewels” (2023)

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I do not remember names. I am female.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY ↳ Episode 1x04 ↳ Holding the King

"I do not remember names, I am female"💀💀

Bridgerton season 3 theory:

Queen Charlotte showed us three very strong women who did whatever they needed to do to control their own fates and the fates of their children. They did not surrender to the limitations placed upon women in society even when they hated doing what they did.

I expect that to be what saves Penelope in season three.

Princess Augusta (King George‘s mother) was widowed and threw herself on the mercy of her cruel and abusive father-in-law to make sure her son became king despite his madness.

Lady Danbury did everything she could think of to secure the Danbury title for her son.

Charlotte had to accept a truly unconventional life and choose to stand by her husband to secure her marriage, her future as Queen and her unborn child.

I really feel like this is foreshadowing for Penelope in season three. At the end of the day she’s a very young lady whose father (a known gambler) was murdered and left their family penniless. She wrote Whistledown to make money in order to support herself and her family. She was a worthy adversary for Queen Charlotte who, let’s be honest, enjoyed reading Whistledown as much as she enjoyed the mystery of discovering who she is. It also served as a distraction from the sadness and loneliness in her life.

I’m almost expecting a bit of a secret agreement to be made with the crown for Lady Whistledown to keep writing with her majesty’s protection. Like the, “invisible contract,” the real royal family has with the media. And I do wonder if Penelope will get pregnant this season and still be writing to save money for her, Colin and their child.

THE CHILDREN OF KING GEORGE III & QUEEN CHARLOTTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

The royal couple welcomed a total of fifteen children together, but sadly not all of them survived into adulthood. Two, Prince Octavius and Prince Alfred, passed away in infancy, at the ages of 2 and 4, respectively, from smallpox. Later on, Princess Amelia also sadly died young, albeit it at the age of 27, after succumbing to tuberculosis. As for when their brood started to arrive, it seems George and Charlotte wasted no time in getting to know one another and less than a year into their marriage, on 12 August 1762

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The king is not mad! The king is merely exhausted from holding the greatest nation in the world on his shoulders! What could you know about that? The weight of that on a boy. The weight on his mother as she watches her son start to crack. If, God grant, you ever do bear an heir, then you may start to learn, and your first lesson will be this. You would do anything to stop the cracking.

The Legend of the Princess Augusta or the Palatine Ship

The legend goes back to the historic shipwreck of the Princess Augusta at Block Island in 1738. The ship is known from several contemporary accounts and from statements made by the surviving crew after the sinking, which were discovered in 1925 and reprinted in 1939. The British merchant ship Augusta sailed from Rotterdam in August 1738 under Captain George Long and a crew of fourteen, carrying 240 immigrants to the English colonies in America. The passengers were German Palatines who came from the Palatinate, which is why the ship was referred to as the "Palatine Ship" in contemporary documents, which explains the later confusion about the name. The ship was on its way to Philadelphia, from where the passengers were possibly travelling to a German-owned settlement on the James River in Virginia.

The Burning Ship, by Albert Bierstadt 1869

The Princess Augusta's voyage was ill-fated: The water supply was contaminated, causing a "fever and flux disease" that killed 200 passengers and half the crew, including Captain Long. First Officer Andrew Brook took command when severe storms forced the ship off course to the north, where the survivors were exposed to extreme weather conditions and dwindling supplies for three months. According to the crew, Brook forced the passengers to pay for the remaining rations. Apparently he tried different routes to Rhode Island and Philadelphia, but the storms drove the damaged and leaking Augusta to Block Island. She ran aground in a snowstorm at Sandy Point at the northernmost end of the island at 2 p.m. on 27 December 1738.

According to reports, Brook rowed to shore with the entire crew and abandoned the passengers on board. The Block Islanders apparently did what they could to help. They convinced Brook to let the passengers disembark the next day, and later retrieved their belongings when he left them on board. They also buried about 20 people who died after the shipwreck; the Block Island Historical Society erected a memorial plaque at the site of the "Palatine Graves" in 1947.

The authorities took statements from the crew, but what happened afterwards is unclear. Apparently the crew was not charged for their actions, and they and most of the surviving passengers made it to the mainland, from where little is known about them. Two survivors remained on Block Island and settled there. Most reports indicate that the ship was deemed unsalvageable and was forced out to sea to sink. It may have been set on fire to sink it. According to some reports, a woman, sometimes referred to as Mary Van Der Line, was driven mad by her suffering; she was forgotten and sank with the ship, according to these reports. However, no remains of the wreck have ever been found, and there are indications that the Augusta may have been repaired and sent on to Philadelphia.

There is a rich oral tradition of this event, and numerous sightings were reported in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The legend was immortalised by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier in "The Palatine", which faithfully reproduces the traditional story in verse. Which gave the Legend it's name. On Saturdays between Christmas and New Year's Eve, locals still sporadically report seeing a burning ship pass by. Folklorist Michael Bell, investigating the legend, found that almost a year after the incident, two versions of the night's events were circulated.

The Palatine Graves

The Block Islanders insisted that their citizens had made a valiant attempt to rescue the crew, while the New England mainlanders suspected the islanders of having lured the ship to them in order to seize their cargo. Both legends agreed that a female passenger had refused to abandon ship when it sank, and those who claim to have witnessed her reappearance say that her screams were heard from the ship.

Today, a plaque at the Mohegan Bluffs where the ship is said to have run aground reads: Palatine Graves - 1738. Some claim that those who died that night are buried underground. However, Charlotte Taylor of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission has stated that no physical evidence has ever been found to support either this claim or the legend itself.

funny thing about charlotte’s mother-in-law.. 👀👀

Queen Charlotte's Daughters

Michelle Fairley in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023) as Princess Augusta

"Is he healthy?"