THE wild adventures of Regency toffs and tarts in Bridgerton have entertained 63million viewers around the world. But real-life Georgian England was even more raucous than the show suggests.
Rod McPhee reveals the parallels between London in the late 18th and early 19th Century and storylines in the Netflix hit drama.
Gossip AT the heart of Bridgerton are Lady Whistledown’s writings on scandal and affairs in upper-class London. And throughout the Regency era, magazines, “scandal sheets” and gossip columns in newspapers had similarly salacious tittle tattle.
Town And Country Magazine featured a monthly column profiling the love life and scandals of an unnamed “celebrity” couple who patrons of coffee houses and salons in London would try to.
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