What Would Danbury Do?

Gregory’s second epilogue doesn’t have any running, but it treads some very emotional ground nonetheless. And once again, we have to ask, what do the Bridgertons have against baby-name books? Featuring: - Hyacinth being more Hyacinth than she was in her own epilogue - Inexplicable genetics - A midwife who is not having it - Threats of bodily harm - Actual bodily harm - Seriously, just find new nam...

It’s a very special supplemental episode in the lead-up to the release of Bridgerton on Netflix! We are joined by our very first special guest, Sarah Wendell, co-creator of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books and writer of Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Romance Novels as we delve into everything that you need to know about the Bridgertons before you hit ‘play’. Featuring: - Our first guest! - A...

In this second epilogue, we revisit Hyacinth and Gareth some 22 years into their marriage, but the real story is about Hyacinth’s daughter, Isabella. Poor Hyacinth is facing every parent’s worst nightmare: a child just like themselves. Featuring: - A decades-old scavenger hunt - A strawberry-blonde goth? - A *lot* of time in the spare bathroom - A *lot* of hidden drawers and false bottoms - Everyo...

Three years into their marriage, Francesca [f35] and Michael [m38] are still childless. But Francesca is slowly moving away from her all-consuming obsession with having children and moving into recognising that not being a mother doesn’t mean she won’t have children in her life. As her niblings grow, she finds herself spending more time at the Bridgerton family homes in Kent and London, visiting h...

Normally, we’d be revisiting the relationship between Eloise, Lady Crane (nee Bridgerton) [f39] and her husband Sir Phillip Crane [m41], but this second epilogue takes a couple of unexpected turns: first, it’s told in the first-person, and second, it’s told from the point-of-view of Eloise and Phillip’s eldest daughter, Amanda [f19]. We’re not entirely sure if it’s a narration, a diary entry, or a...

Colin Bridgerton [m33] and Penelope Bridgerton [f28] have been married for a very short time when they have to head off to Gloucestershire for Eloise’s wedding. Both Penelope and Eloise kept Very Big Secrets from each other: now they have to face each other for the first time since those secrets were revealed. Will their friendship survive not only the big changes they’ve gone through, but also th...

Sophie [f25] is now happily married to Benedict [m33], living in the country and apparently bored, because she keeps playing matchmaker for her half-sister Posy [f25]. This time, Sophie has set her sights on the new vicar, Hugh [m, age unknown but in possession of all his hair], and invited him for tea. However, tea is not drunk, sandwiches are not tasted, and roses are very scandalised.  Please n...

Viscount Anthony Bridgerton [m44] and his wife Kate [f36] met some number of years ago when Anthony was pursuing Kate’s sister, Edwina [f32]. During the course of their courtship, Anthony, both sisters, and several of his siblings played an infamous game of Pall Mall. For reasons that are unclear but are probably related to some sort of foreplay, Anthony extends a yearly invite to the original pla...

Daphne Bridgerton [f41] is very happily married to a duke [m49] when she finds herself in a position that Kate described as her very worst nightmare. Rather than sharing this blessed news with her husband, Daphne instead prolongs the not-telling long enough that pretty much every other person in London knows before he does. What is marriage if not for keeping little secrets? It’s Season Two: The S...

Welcome to Season Two of What Would Danbury Do... a podcast about Julia Quinn’s iconic family, the Bridgertons. In Season One, Rudi, Adele, and Kate took you through the original eight, the O.G. alphabetically named siblings, the Bridgertons from Anthony to Hyacinth. These episodes are available via our website, www.bridgertonpod.com or wherever you get your podcasts. We recommend you go and check...

Rudi, Kate, and Adele (F, none of your business) break down the season past, talk about their highlights and their lowlights, provide surprisingly similar rankings, and tackle some thorny reader questions. And, as always, we wonder...who hurt Rudi? Featuring: - Why you should only be friends with Kate - Objectively Good versus Effective versus Giving You All The Feels - Fan fic supporting Rudi’s f...

Gregory Bridgerton [m26] has watched every single one of his siblings fall into a true love match, and thus has become a bit of an overconfident git about a) finding true love and b) knowing true love when it shows up.  Meanwhile Lady Lucinda Abernathy [f20] is not the kind of woman that believes any man professing true love, having heard enough of them profess it to her beautiful best friend, Her...

Francesca (F23) is happily married to John(M28), living in Scotland, and palling around with John’s cousin Michael (M29) in a completely platonic threesome. Then the unimaginable happens. Flash-forward four years and Francesca (F27) has lost both her husband and their mutual best friend as Michael (M33) hangs out in India and avoids all familial responsibility. But on his unexpected return to Engl...

Sir Phillip Crane [m30] just wanted to hang out with his plants, but his brother’s death in France landed him the title, the estate, the responsibility, and a wife he married for duty and not love. Now a widow with two demons *cough* children in his care, he just wants someone to help make his life easier. Enter Eloise Bridgerton [f28] who is on the shelf and therefore should be desperate enough t...

Perpetual wallflower Penelope Featherington [f28] has been hopelessly in love with Colin Bridgerton [33m] for years, however he only sees her as a friend. Now he’s back in London after a lengthy Greek sojourn, and something is different. Penelope is finally finding her courage, and Colin can’t help but notice the woman he never noticed before. WWDD? Our fourth episode has us (and everyone else) si...

Benedict Bridgerton [m30ish] has an inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to two women. One is a mysterious woman [f22] he meets at his mother’s masquerade ball and never sees again, and the second is two years later, when he meets Sophie Beckett [f24] a housemaid who seems oddly familiar. How can he possibly choose between them? WWDD? It’s our third episode, and we go full Cinderella with An O...

This is a podcast about our favourite meddling mama and her brood of alphabetically arranged children. Join Adele, Kate, and Rudi as they delve into the family Bridgerton from A to V (Anthony to Violet!) What Would Danbury Do will make its episodic debut to polite and not-so-polite society alike in January 2020. In the meantime, find us on twitter and instagram using #WWDDpod to start the conversa...