Shonda and I (and our publisher) know that some readers don't like tie-in covers featuring actors, so the original idea was to release Queen Charlotte with two different covers - one with India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest as Charlotte and George, and another that looked more like a "regular" book.Reynolds may be a servant, but he has an almost aristocratic demeanor, and this became a big part of his characterization in the novel.Ĭlick on the image to see JQ’s Today Show segment, including a peek at the reversible book cover for Queen Charlotte! From the scripts, I knew that Reynolds was tall, handsome and self-composed, but I had not realized how regal Freddie played him. I had a similar experience after meeting Freddie Dennis, who plays Reynolds. So when Charlotte is realizing the depth of her affections for George she thinks: "She looked up at him, at his beloved face, those dark brows, and the full lower lip he liked to bite when he was amused."įreddie Dennis as Reynolds in Queen Charlotte. For example, Corey Mylchreest bites his lip when he (George) is amused. I loved being able to incorporate bits and pieces of the actors' performances. It was an entirely new experience for me to be able to see (and hear!) the characters so clearly as I was writing the novel. While writing Queen Charlotte, however, I visited the set, met the actors, and then later watched early cuts of the show. I've never been a visual writer, and thus I don't usually have a clear (or even a fuzzy) picture of my character's faces when I write my novels.This would be difficult to achieve, however, if we kept moving back into the later timeline, when George is so diminished. I wanted readers to have all the same heady feelings we get when we watch a couple fall in love. But I wanted Charlotte and George's courtship to read like a romance novel. It was never going to be a true romance novel the ending is far too bittersweet to be a classic HEA. I simply didn't see how jumping back and forth -which works so well in a television format- was going to work for a novel, especially since I wanted the book to have as much of a romance novel feel as I could. The biggest change between the show and the book was the elimination of the later storyline, with the characters we know and love from Netflix's Bridgerton.It was a fascinating process, and one I enjoyed immensely. I honestly don't know how else to describe it. I remember turning to my husband and saying, "Well, people might say I did it badly, but no one can say I did it wrong." In the end, I had to break down the architecture of a screenplay and then rebuild it as a novel. I realized that I was going to have to figure out the process on my own. We wanted Queen Charlotte, the novel, to read like a fully-formed novel, like something that could stand on its own even if you didn't watch the show. It turns out there haven't been too many novelizations of television shows or movies-at least not the way Shonda and I envisioned it. I did a bit of research on how to adapt scripts into a novel, and found absolutely nothing. Shonda wrote six scripts and then gave them to me to craft into a novel. The collaboration process was one of taking turns.It turns out she had been thinking the same thing, and that was the beginning of Queen Charlotte, the novel. A couple of months later, at the Bridgerton Season 2 premiere (literally backstage at the red carpet!) I suggested to Shonda that I write a novel based on the show. In January 2022 Shonda Rhimes called me with the news that Netflix had greenlit a Bridgerton prequel series about Queen Charlotte.She must instead fulfill her destiny… as Queen.Īnd what’s so special about the bookjacket? For she will never be just Charlotte again. She must fight-for herself, for her husband, and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace. Above all she must learn to rule, and to understand that she has been given the power to remake society. Thrust into her new role as a royal, Charlotte must learn to navigate the intricate politics of the court… all the while guarding her heart, because she is falling in love with the King, even as he pushes her away. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed, because George had secrets… secrets with the potential to shake the very foundations of the monarchy. They were married within hours.īorn a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent… not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time.
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