How old is Daphne in Bridgerton?

How old is Daphne in Bridgerton?

BRIDGERTON is the Regency period drama series sweeping the globe with viewers binging the show based on the best-selling novels by Julia Quinn. Many have been asking about the show including How old is Daphne in Bridgerton?

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Netflix dropped costume drama series Bridgerton on Christmas Day 2020. The eight-part series follows the titular Bridgerton family as eldest daughter Daphne (played by Phoebe Dynevor) comes of age and debuts on the London marriage market in the hopes of securing a husband before the season is out or run the risk of being left on the shelf. Some audience members want to know more about Daphne and how old she is.

How old is Daphne in Bridgerton?

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from Bridgerton

Season one of Bridgerton is adapted from Julia Quinn’s novel The Duke and I (2000) and follows the courtship between Daphne and Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page).

In the original novel, Daphne is 21-years-old while the Duke is several years older than her and attended university with Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey).

Despite her age, Daphne and her peers are depicted as innocent in the ways of the world when it comes to sex.

Sadly, her lack of carnal knowledge puts her on the back foot when she marries the Duke, who tells her he’s unable to have children.

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Bridgerton: Daphne was depicted as highly naive (Image: NETFLIX)

Bridgerton: Women were kept in the dark about se (Image: NETFLIX)

However, during their trysts he pulls away before the moment of climax with Daphne unaware why he does so and presumes it to be part of lovemaking.

She even asks him if it hurts him but is ignorant of the reasoning behind his actions.

Only when she quizzes her ladies maid does Daphne learn the truth and forces Simon to follow through, something which angers him.

Daphne, in turn, is left enraged for his betrayal and keeping her in the dark about having children.

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Bridgerton: Phoebe Dynevor plays Daphne (Image: NETFLIX)

To make matters worse, Daphne discovered her husband vowed to his father on his deathbed he would never have children as a means to punish him for the childhood cruelty inflicted upon him.

While the women ofd Bridgerton are naive apart from one or two, the men are shown to be wise to the ways of the world.

Simon visits a brothel while Anthony is locked in a sexually-charged romance with an opera singer, both known for their rakish ways.

Perhaps the lack of information about the opposite sex makes the women of Bridgerton appear young than their years.

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Bridgerton: Daphne was incredibly naive (Image: NETFLIX)

However, being kept in the dark and without sex education wouldn’t have been out of place in the Regency Era with young women rarely given any insight prior to their wedding night.

Even Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) was unsure of how her cousin Marina Thompson (Ruby Baker) fell pregnant without being married.

Daphne was the eldest daughter and so without any sisters above her would have been left clueless without any sexual knowledge.

Compared to her onscreen character, British actress Dynevor is actually 25-year-old and was born on April 17, 1995.

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The star is the daughter of Coronation Street actress Sally Dynevor, who many know as Sally Webster in the ITV soap.

Prior to landing the part in Bridgerton, Dynevor featured in Waterloo Road, Prisoners Wives and The Village.

More recently, she appeared in TV series Younger, Snatch and Dickensian before she impressed the producers of Bridgerton.

The cast of the drama were sent on an intensive bootcamp six weeks before filming started to prepare them for the shoot with the actors learning about etiquette from the time as well as horse riding skills and meeting with an intimacy co-ordinator.

Bridgerton is streaming on Netflix now