SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points for Season 3 of Bridgerton . Based on Julia Quinn’s Romancing Mister Bridgerton Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton watches the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) bloom. While their book comes fourth in the series after Benedict’s love story, the show has moved their installment up in the order of Bridgerton sibling romances.

Francesca’s (Hannah Dodd) love story also intertwines more significantly in the expanded two-part season, with Part 1 releasing May 16 on Netflix and Part 2 June 13. Ahead of Season 3 Part 1’s launch, showrunner Jess Brownell, producer Shonda Rhimes and author Julia Quinn confirmed that an important scene in which Colin cuts his hand would feature in the show. This scene first sparks Colin’s more-than-platonic consideration of Penelope as she bandages his hand.

She had been sneaking a look at his diary and reading his writing about his travels, and he gets angry with her, which brings him to cut his hand. Other scenes and lines of dialogue transferred from Quinn’s pages to script and eventually screen, but changes have also been made to character plotlines, backstories, marriage statuses and more. Even those hovering around Lady Whistledown’s identity include different characters than Quinn’s book.

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