What we know about Lady Violet Bridgerton ahead of Netflix spin-off

Key points

• A Netflix spin-off series, yet untitled, will follow the early life of Lady Violet Bridgerton and her romance with Edmund. Ruth Gemmell plays the older Violet in Bridgerton, while Connie Jenkins-Greig played a younger Violet in the Queen Charlotte spin-off.
• Edmund died from anaphylaxis after a bee sting while Violet was pregnant with their eighth child. Violet later develops feelings for Lord Marcus Anderson, but the romance ends when she declines to marry him.
• No date has been set for the new series.