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Bridgerton season three part two was released on Netflix this week and fans of the Regency drama were delighted to sink their teeth into Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton’s love story . However, there is one key character missing from Bridgerton season three who played a rather vital role in the book. The leading lady of this season is Nicola Coughlan ’s Penelope, who is the youngest of three sisters in the series.

Her eldest sisters, Prudence and Phillipa appear in the show with their main narrative in this latest season focusing on their pregnancies and lives with their new husbands. In true Cinderella fashion, the two older sisters are cruel and unkind to Penelope and it appears as if she is set to live her life as a spinster with just her mother for company if she is unable to marry. However, in the book, Penelope has an ally who sticks by her side and even helps her when it comes to romancing Colin Bridgerton – another sister! In the book, Penelope isn’t the youngest Featherington sister as the trio had a fourth sister named Felicity.



Felicity is best friends and close in age to Hyacinth Bridgerton, the youngest of the eight Bridgerton siblings . In Julia Quinn’s novel, Felicity is a key reason that Penelope spends so much time at the Bridgerton house as they both take tea with their respective friends, Eloise and Hyacinth, at their home every week. Felicity encourages Penelope and supports her happiness and relationship with Colin.

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