As millions of viewers across the globe thrill to the assembly room
exploits of the Bridgerton family and wait with bated breath for Lady
Whistledown's latest dispatch from Almack's, scandal has never been so
delicious. In a world where appearances were everything and gossip was
currency, everyone had their price.
From a divorce case that hinged on a public demonstration of
masturbation to the irresistible exploits of the New Female Coterie, via
the Prince Regent's dropped drawers and Lady Hamilton's diaphanous
unmentionables, The Real Bridgerton pulls back the sheets on the
eighteenth century's most outrageous scandals. Within these pages Lord
Byron meets his match, the richest commoner in England falls for a
swindler with a heart of stone, and forbidden love between half-siblings
leaves a wife and her children reeling.
Behind the headlines and the breathless whispers in Regency ballrooms
were real people living real lives in a tumultuous, unforgiving era. The
fall from the very pinnacle of society to the gutter could be as quick
as it was brutal. If you thought that Bridgerton was as shocking as
the Georgians got, it's time to think again.
