How the Regency set were the original Sloane Rangers
telegraph.co.ukthe second series of Bridgerton, which launched on Netflix last week, shows just how the early-19th century elites paved the way for the Sloane Rangers who followed in their footsteps.These two fashionable sets may have been separated by 250 years, but each captured a unique moment in history – and style.The Regency, which lasted from 1811 to 1820, was a period of great excitement and social development.
It was a time that sprung out of deep unrest – King George III having been deemed too “mad” to rule, and his son (the eventual George IV) stepping in as Regent.
Under him, Britain flourished, as the Prince of Wales assumed the role of patron for emerging artists, writers and scientists.The era of the Sloane Ranger was also a period of optimism.
As author of the 1982 Sloane Ranger Handbook, Peter York, has put it: “The time we’re looking at, Britain was coming out of the terribleness of the late 1970s and an enormous [economic] depression.
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