Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story premiered on Netflix this past May with both India Ria Amarteifo and Golda Rosheuvel playing younger and older portrayals of the titular role of Queen Charlotte.
This series follows a newly wedded Queen Charlotte navigating the trials of a royal marriage in a new country, alongside her husband, the infamous King George III.
Queen Charlotte was a bright young woman, both in real life and in this series. With six episodes, Queen Charlotte has enough time to let her wittiness and intelligence shine.
Here’s the scoop on the best Queen Charlotte quotes, spanning from quippy to heartwarming.
Warning, spoilers for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story are ahead!
1. “Statues are works of art. Art is beautiful.”
2. “I am wearing Lyonnais silk, encrusted with Indian sapphires, working with overlay of 200-year-old lace. Apparently, too much movement can cause the sapphires to shred the lace. If that were not enough, the gown sits atop a bespoke underpinning made of whalebone.”
3. “Whales died, so I could look like this.”
4. “All the finest corsets are whalebone. You’d know that if you knew anything.”
5. “So I give the appearance of a statue, ridiculous to the eye, but that is because I cannot move.”
6. “And because I must arrive on display, I am forced into a ludicrous gown so stylish that if I move too much, I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments. Oh, how joyful it is to be a lady.”
7. “This I would love to hear because I’m not upset, nor am I emotional. I am angry, and I cannot breathe. And both are thanks to you, Brother.”
8. “Walk with me! I have questions.”
9. “Is he ugly? Perhaps deformed in some way because beauty is inside. Well, it is certainly not inside, but I am a good person and shall overcome.”
10. “Is he dull? Not very smart? Mentally slow? I can work on those.”
11. “You can tell me. Is he cruel?”
12. “You said you’re going to always be with me, Brimsley.
13. “I need to… use the chamber pot. Are you with me for that too?”
14. “If you must know, I am trying to ascertain the best way to climb over the garden wall.”
15. “Oh, well that is impertinent. None of your business.”
16. “You know, if I grab there… Yes! You could assist me by lifting me up.”
17. “I do not care what he looks like. What I do not like is not knowing.”
18. “You try climbing a wall in all of these garments!”
19. “No, George. It is our wedding night.”
20. “We are married. Are we not supposed to do what married people do?”
21. “This is our marriage? You there, and me here?”
22 “My mistake. I thought you were just George. Forgive me, Your Majesty.”
23. “How is it that none of you have managed respectable relationships?”
24. “Your father and I have provided Great Britain with a great bloodline. It will not end with your generation. This bloodline will continue. You will make it continue.”
25. “Is this how you have been spending your time since the wedding?”
26. “George, what have I done wrong? What mistake did I make?”
27. “Then what is it? What is so wrong with me?”
28. “George, I thought you were visiting a… a brothel.”
29. “I’m saying that it might be better if you were visiting a brothel.”
30. “You have been in this one-of-a-kind observatory room sleeping and eating and staring up at the sky and feeling most excited by the constellations since the night of our wedding, while I have been stuck in that stuffy house, being changed like a doll, three times a day with nowhere to go, no one to talk to, and nothing to do.”
31. “I am seven and ten years old, and suddenly I am Queen, in a strange country with strange food and strange customs. You do not understand because this is who you were born to be.”
32. “I cannot do whatever I like. The Queen is not allowed to go to the modiste, or the galleries, or the ice shops. I cannot make friends. I must hold myself apart. I do not know a single soul here, except for you.”
33. “I’m completely alone, and you prefer the sky to me.”
34. “I want to fight with you! Fight with me! Fight for me!”
35. “I can pick my own orange, Brimsley.”
36. “No. Dogs are big and majestic. Uh, a Pinscher, a shepherd, a schnauzer, a Dane. That is… a deformed bunny.”
37. “I can. And I will. You shall not tell me what I’m allowed to do.”
38. “And if one wanted to be discreet, would one trust Lady Danbury?”
39. “Brimsley said you’d be the most discreet because I am on my honeymoon.”
40. “Which is going wonderfully, by the way. It is a splendid honeymoon. My husband is the best of husbands.”
41. “Please speak freely. No one else does.”
42. “He was mean and rude and selfish. He just wanted to leave. He felt bad, I suppose.”
43. “Well, I do not like George, so I do not see why we should need to bother ourselves to do this at all.”
44. “Yes, but this is not my failing. I mean, he clearly does not want me, and I cannot somehow force him to want to do this with me.”
45. “I cannot concentrate with you hovering, breathing, and telling me to concentrate.”
46. “Yes, well… I do not forgive you. Yet.”
47. “That is obvious, Brimsley. Everything I do is a blessing.”
48. “Yes, I know. You are old. Your wombs are likely dry and useless.”
49. “Our duty will be done. And I will no longer have to view your face.”
50. “You have been breathing in my rooms.”
51. “Brimsley, I will get my own oranges from now on.”
52. “You would think they would want to examine the Queen as well. It is all anyone cares about, me making a baby. You’d think there’d be doctors all over me. Instead, you were the one seeing doctors in the cellar.”
53. “I am off to bed, I have a busy day tomorrow. I am to meet my ladies-in-waiting. After all, I am now, what were those words? Ah, living for the happiness or misery of a great nation.”
54. “It is decidedly odd.”
55. “What are you about? Hm? You refuse to hold court. You will not go out. I am told we cannot bring in amusements.”
56. “Your duties are not like those of any king I have known.”
57. “So King George is… Farmer George.”
58. “You live for the happiness and the misery of a great nation. That must be exhausting and lonely. You must feel caged.”
59. “You are a person to me. You can be a person with me.”
60. “George, I know you do not owe me anything after how I have behaved, and I know you do not like social events, but I need us to do something.”
61. “Our palace walls are too high.”
62. “You can do anything, George.”
63. “Brimsley, do not attempt to flatter me by talking about my children. It makes me dislike you more. Answer the question.”
64. “No, I am Venus. Right here, I am Venus.”
65. “I was in the sky, but now I am going inside.”
66. “Venus is indoors. With you. She is with you.”
67. “Has Your Highness ever tried cutting mutton with a dull knife?”
68. “The knives at Buckingham House used to be sharp enough. Then, one day, they were all dull. It happened to be the day the King joined me there.”
69. “Odd, I thought, but surely a coincidence. Surely, a coincidence, too, that the very same day, the windows were sealed shut on the upper floors, and suddenly locks, everywhere.”
70. “A coincidence, surely.”
71. “What I could not convince myself was a coincidence, though, was when the library set of Shakespeare was missing King Lear.”
72. “The one about the mad king, because the King is mad and I live in a mad house!”
73. “All this time I thought I was the damaged one. That somehow I was deficient.”
74. “Rough edges? He was talking to the sky!”
75. “I did not ask to sit at the helm of the world, I did not even ask for a husband!”
76. “But if I must have one if I must leave my home, my family, my language, my life, it cannot be for a man I do not know! A man I was not allowed to know! For a lie!”
77. “Is he dead? Well, find out. I want to be sure.”
78. “Have them harvested. Give them to the poor.”
79. “I am not receiving visitors.”
80. “I absolutely refuse to see the physician.”
81. “Is… she still here?”
82. “She has not fallen down a flight of stairs or choked on a cube of meat?”
83. “What I mean to say is, are you almost finished?”
84. “Ramsey, I am not so large a woman.”
85. “Yes. His Majesty… requested a wedding portrait.”
86. “My skin is too light. Paint my skin darker. As it actually is.”
87. “Ah! There you are!”
88. “My sons have been ever so eager to meet you both.”
89. “What of it? They are noble. They are rich. They are connected. They are perfect. And next week, they will be your wives.”
90. “I forgot myself. I overstepped. As Prince Regent, the matter rests entirely in the Prince of Wales’s hands.”
91. “He is acting sovereign and ultimate authority.”
92. “Georgie, you be a good boy and approve your brothers’ marriages.”
93. “Where is… she?”
94. “Get up. You look ridiculous.”
95. “You could not make it any faster?”
96. “Only I am not happy. I want to go home, Adolphus.”
97. “Nonsense? You shall take me home. Now. And you cannot refuse me.”
98. “When we came here, you told me you could not say no to the British Empire, and now I am their Queen.”
99. “Please say that one more time. I shall have you beheaded.”
100. “I am a tree?”
101. “What matter? Well, you try growing it, then!”
102. “I only want to be home. With my own family. With you.”
103. “An alliance? That is why you married me off to these people.”
104. “But what would it matter? My body is his, is it not?”
105. “I am here to offer my official condolences, of course. Sorrows. Prayers.”
106. “Home… that place is no home.”
107. “I have left that place, and I am never… never, never going back.”
108. “Ugh, so bloody good at his job.”
109. “All I can say is that I have been lied to and betrayed by everyone in this country but you. You are my only friend.”
110. “This is not the life I wished for.”
111. “Whatever impertinence, whatever evasion, smother it. Your long boyhood is over. In an hour, you will be a husband.”
112. “Love is not a thing one is able or not able to do based on some magic. Some chemistry. That is for plays.”
113. “Love is determination. Love is a choice one makes. You take someone in marriage, and you choose to love them. You do not give yourself any other option. Because marriage is difficult. Full of pains.”
114. “And the life of a royal… is lonely. So you grab someone, and you hang on.”
115. “You love, and you love hard because if you do not… you are lost.”
116. “You sold me off to be the Queen of England. I’m off to be the Queen of England.”
117. “Damn Venus. I am Charlotte. I am Charlotte, and I need you to be George again, I need you to try.”
118. “You cannot force me away. I will not go.”
119. “I will stay! I command it.”
120. “I love you, George. I love you so much that I will do as you wish. If you do not love me, all you have to do is say you do not love me, and I will go.”
121. “What is the trouble now? Or is there good news?”
122. “No, but I am your Queen.”
123. “These are certainly the words of a brilliant man… and so are these.”
124. “George, stop. The baby is coming.”
125. “Parliament will appreciate all of your thoughts. You are ready.”
126. “He is going to be brilliant.”
127. “George, I will not leave you. I will not.”
128. “Softer… there. Now, let us smile and wave.”
129. “A girl is just wonderful, and a strong Queen is just what this country needs.”
130. “No, George. I did not go over the wall.”
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story encapsulates the intricate drama within Great Britain’s royal family, providing a new insight that allows its viewers to peek in and see the human element behind such a prestigious family.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has quite a few delicate quotes throughout the show when it comes to being a woman in a royal family.
Queen Charlotte was a headstrong Queen, and provided a happy marriage for the mad King George III, learning a whole new language to do so. Her willpower is truly an indicator of her personality, with undying devotion both in the series and in real life.
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