LADY VIOLET BRIDGERTON
ANTHONY BRIDGERTON
LADY VIOLET’S SON
SIENA ROSSO
BRIDGERTON/FUN!/ANTHONY REJECTS THE ANNOYING MARRIAGE CANDIDATES OF HIS MOTHER LADY VIOLET
HALLO FOLKS
I promised you to come back soon
AND HERE I AM
This Time a Short Post and guess about who?
Perhaps you guess:
YES
Lady Violet and her son Anthony
As you’ll know, their relationship is initially very strained, due to unreasonable harshness from Lady Violet, who feels a deep, but due to some reasons, failed love for her son Anthony [1]
Tensions rise a climax when he falls in love with opera singer Siena Rosso [2]
which is strongly opposed by his mother Violet, since opera singers were considered ”immoral women” [3] and in Regency Era [4] a marriage between an aristocrat and an opera singer could lead to social death within the boundaries
of the Ton [5]
So she opposes strongly and forbids the relationship, but since it is true love,
Anthony always returns to Siena, even on the Eve of the duel with his best friend Simon Hastings [see under note 6]
NEEDLEWORK……..
At a certain point, in the heat of the fight between mother and son [7], they attend a party where Siena Rosso has been hired to sing [remember, she is
an opera singer]
Anthony sees her, stares at her and can’t take his eyes off her.
His mother anxiously watches him and perhaps for the first time realizes, that his feelings for her are not just a ”whim” [8]
In her panic, she walks towards him and pushes marriage candidates in his direction, whom he considers laughing stocks [what they really are!], as he tells his mother.
She is embarrassed and a little hurt, he is severely annoyed.
At last he is fed up with his mother’s nagging and idle chattering about the
perfect ”needlework” of one of the candidates and walks away.
Then his mother, really worried about him [since his love for opera singer Siena
Rosso is not permitted between the rules of the British aristocracy, the Ton] [9]
says to him:
”You’ll end up alone, with such expectations”
He says:
”Good day mother” and off he goes.
SEE THE HILARIOUS YOUTUBE FILM BELOW, WITH TEXT!
ASTRID ESSED
NOTES 1 T/M 9
YOUTUBE FILM
TEXT [AND BELOW TEXT, THE LINK]
[Lady Violet]
”Lady Delilah she has beautiful manners andI hear she is most accomplished
in her needlework.
Perhaps you should….to know them better soon”
[Anthony]
”Lady Delilah can barely three sentences together…..and miss Goodram thought that Napoleon fight for the Spanish and as for other eager chick you pushed in my direction I hope I will never lay eyes on them again.
[Lady Violet]
”Anthony…..”
[Anthony]
I am looking for perfection mother and you should too.
The woman I marry should be the Viscountess Bridgerton, the lady of this household, responsible for my sisters and baring my children.
Do you truly desire that they will be raised by a woman, who doesn’t know as much as to hold a map the right side down”
[Violet looks the other way, hurt]
This is the duty I must fulfill”
[Lady Violet]
”You’ll end up alone, with such expectations”
[Anthony] [fed up with her]
”Good day mother”
END OF THE YOUTUBE FILM
AI OVERVIEW
[AI OVERVIEW IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BUT
THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR AND JUICY!]
You are absolutely right to correct me—at that point in Season 1, Anthony isn’t just avoiding duty; he is actively in love with Siena Rosso. His dismissiveness toward the ladies of the ton isn’t because he lacks feeling, but because his heart is already occupied by someone he believes he can never truly have in his world.
Bridgerton WikiHere is that exchange from the first episode, “Diamond of the First Water,” in English:
- Lady Delilah: Violet praises her by saying, “Lady Delilah has such exquisite manners.” Anthony immediately shuts it down, replying that her manners are “as practiced as a stage performance.”
- Miss Goodram: Violet suggests her because she is “most accomplished in her needlework.” Anthony counters by asking if his mother expects him to “marry a seamstress.”
Violet, frustrated by his arrogance and clear lack of interest in any “suitable” match, delivers the prophetic line:
“You shall find yourself quite alone with such expectations.”
RedditIt’s a powerful moment because it highlights the double life he’s leading: he’s comparing these “perfect” debutantes to the raw, genuine passion he feels for Siena, and they simply don’t stand a chance