Daphne Bridgerton — everything you need to know about the Bridgerton character (2024)

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Daphne Bridgerton — everything you need to know about the Bridgerton character? ›

Daphne is the fourth eldest in her family, raised in a large home in the early 1800s. Edmund, her father, died young, leaving his wife Violet to raise eight polite yet opinionated children. Daphne was afforded every luxury as a child, but her family sheltered her from many of the world's realities.

Daphne is one of the most eligible young women in London society circles. Though she wants to marry and have children, she struggles to connect with acceptable suitors, as her easygoing attitude leads most men to see her as a friend rather than a romantic prospect. She is beautiful, intelligent, and outspoken.

Physical appearance

In the books, Daphne has a heart shaped face, large, dark brown eyes with dark brown hair, full lips and a wide smile; she is considered to be beautiful, but unexceptional.

Daphne married the Duke of Hastings in season one, adapting to her new responsibilities as the duch*ess of Hastings. But with her story mostly concluded, she took a back seat in season two while her brother Anthony found love with Kate Sharma.

While speaking to Colin about the duel after Anthony and Benedict had left for it, Daphne realized that Cressida had seen her and Simon in the garden, meaning she had to marry Simon or be ruined.

In the first series, Daphne was portrayed as the beautiful, enthusiastic, and eager to help, but occasionally clumsy and danger-prone member of the gang (hence her nickname, "Danger-prone Daphne") who follows her intuition.

Daphne's place in society set her up to enjoy the finer things in life. She enjoys art but has a talent for the piano. When she isn't entertaining suitors, she spends much of her time practicing new music, even writing original compositions. Daphne's primary focus is her family.

In real life, Jane Leeves was pregnant, and Daphne gaining weight was written into the show to explain her baby bump. They discontinued the 'fat Daphne' story arc after Leeves delivered her baby and got back in shape.

Daphne Bridgerton Age:

In the book, which season one is based on, Daphne is 21 years old and so if she were to appear in season three Daphne would be 23 years old. Phoebe Dynevor, who plays Daphne, was born in April 1995 so is 29 in real life.

Just curious how all of the Bridgertons have dark brown hair except Daphne (red). I wonder who she got her hair color from. As long as its in the bloodline. My mums a redhead when the rest are black hair.

What does Daphne call her period in Bridgerton? ›

Courses is an older, fancier way of saying “menses,” or a period. In the Bridgerton time period, the presence or absence of someone's period was essentially the only way of determining whether or not she could bear children or was pregnant, so much is made of courses by the women on the show.

What's more, Simon lied to her about why he didn't want children and the series took too long for them to have an open, honest conversation about their individual wants and needs for the sake of drama. This led Simon and Daphne's romance to become toxic in various ways.

As Daphne dresses Simon's wound, he finally tells her why he vowed to never have a child, out of spite to his father — an explanation she finds unsatisfying. When she later gets her period while at the opera, confirming she's not pregnant, she breaks down in tears.

Depressed, Simon goes out and drinks heavily. Later, after he returns home drunk Daphne has sex with him while he is barely conscious and then, ignoring his feeble protests, forces him to finish inside of her in an effort to become pregnant despite his wishes.

In an interview with Variety, Dynevor revealed her rationale, expressing a sense of completion with Daphne's character arc. She explained, "I've done what I wanted to do with that character and she had a great arc”, as quoted in a report by Variety.

The answer lies in a vow that Simon makes to his father to never sire an heir for the Hastings line.

Based on Daphne's traits and behavior in the anime series Arte, it is highly likely that her MBTI personality type is ISTJ (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging). This personality type manifests in her personality in various ways. Firstly, she is highly logical and practical in her approach to life.

Daphne was a Greek dryad, or tree spirit, and daughter of Peneus, the river god. According to mythology, Apollo, the god of hunting, music, and poetry, offended Eros, the god of love, by mocking his archery skills.

Daphne is a lot more cheerier and optimistic than her sister Sabrina Grimm and tends to be a source of humor and joy in the series, as well as a key character as she is the parallel female protagonist to Sabrina Grimm.

Together Apollo and Daphne teem with morality lessons. Apollo teaches us to let go. Daphne, though, reveals the risks of stubborness. You might end up stuck in your father's basem*nt forever.