Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story finally answers a lot of questions regarding Bridgerton’s wise, sharp-tongued, and mysterious matriarch, Lady Danbury. We finally know who was Lady Danbury’s husband and what happened to him. But did Lady Danbury remarry?
The answer is no, Lady Danbury chooses not to get married again after her husband’s death. Lady Danbury did not remarry, but she did have an affair after Lord Danbury's death.
Warning: More spoilers ahead for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Read at your own risk!
Queen Charlotte Ending Explained: Did Lady Danbury Marry Again?
Lady Danbury chooses not to get married ever again. After Lord Danbury’s funeral, she drinks port wine not because she likes it but because it was Lord Danbury’s favorite.
Agatha then shares with her maid Coral that she was promised when she was just three years old. As a consequence of such, she was raised just to be the wife of Lord Danbury.
“I was taught that my favorite color was gold because his favorite color was gold. I was told my favorite foods were his favorite foods. I read only the books he liked. And learned his favorite songs on the pianoforte. I am drinking this port wine because it is his favorite, and therefore it must be mine,” Lady Danbury shares with Coral.
Agatha is then briefly courted by Adolphus, Queen Charlotte’s brother. He proposes to her, but she rejects his hand in marriage because she “cannot marry anymore” and she never wants to marry again.
Lady Danbury shares that she spent her entire life breathing someone’s air and that she needs to breathe all on her own now.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Arsena Thomas, the actress who plays young Lady Danbury, called this scene an empowering moment for Agatha.
"She's realizing [these things] for the first time in the moment. I don't think she even thought a woman could say these words or that anybody else has thought it. At that moment, it's like verbal diarrhea, because he's pressing her and she's realizing, 'Actually no, what you're serving is not what I want to eat. I'd rather cook for myself.' It becomes so crystal clear that this is a woman who stands alone by choice," Thomas said.
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Queen Charlotte Ending Explained: Lady Danbury’s Affair
When Agatha Danbury becomes a widow, she briefly has an affair with Violet Bridgerton’s father, Lord Ledger. But since they couldn’t be together, they choose to end things.
In present-day Bridgerton, Violet finds one of her father’s birthday crowns in Lady Danbury’s possession which leads her to conclude that her father and Lady Danbury had an affair.
Instead of asking her directly about it, Violet Bridgerton asks Lady Danbury if there was ever anyone else after Lord Danbury. She asks whether Lady Danbury ever wanted to marry again or perhaps “take a lover”, but Lady Danbury responds "I have loved and been loved and that is all I shall say."
Later on, Violet invites Lady Danbury to tea. Agatha realizes that Violet must have figured out about the affair. Violet, however, chooses to carry on with tea and not confront Agatha about it. Lady Danbury and Violet then sit to have tea.
So, after her husband's death, Lady Danbury had an affair but did not remarry. Clearly, we can expect to see more of Lady Danbury and Violet Bridgerton’s friendship in Bridgerton Season 3 and how Violet’s knowledge of the affair changes things between them.
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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is now streaming on Netflix.
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