TV & Movies
The Netflix show differs from Julia Quinns book series.
But how old is youngest Featherington?
Or any of theBridgertoncharacters, for that matter?
And those differences, as outlined below, can have surprising impacts on the love stories.
For the books, Quinns website has ahandy family treewith birth years.
At the start of the Netflix show, Anthony is 28 years old and Kate is 26.
At the beginning of their book,The Viscount Who Loved Me, hes 29 and shes 20.
Benedict begins the TV show at 26, and the books at 27.
Beforetheir bookbegins, theres a time jump, which places Penelope in her late 20s for their romance.
But in the show, since the seasons are set roughly a year apart, shes still a teenager!
To quote several viewers on X (formerly Twitter),she should be at the club.
Daphne and Simon are 18 and 28 inBridgertonSeason 1, but 21 and 29 inThe Duke and I.