Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV Mini Series)

Queen to Be (2023)

Tunji Kasim: Adolphus

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• Adolphus : You give the appearance of a statue.

  Young Queen Charlotte : Statues are works of art. Art is beautiful

  Adolphus : Art can be beautiful to gaze upon. You are ridiculous to the eye.

  Young Queen Charlotte : Is there a point

  Adolphus : You have not moved an inch in six hours

  Young Queen Charlotte : I am wearing Lyonnais silk, encrusted with Indian sapphires, working with overlay of 200-year-old lace. Apparently too much movement can cause the sapphires to shred the lace. If that were not enough, the gown sits atop a bespoke underpinning made of whalebone.

  Adolphus : Whalebone?

  Young Queen Charlotte : Yes. Whalebone, Brother. The bones of whales. Whales died, so I could look like this. All the finest corsets are whalebone. You'd know that if you knew anything. If you ever paid attention you would also know that the problem with whalebone is that it is rather delicate and also very, very sharp. And, of course, I'm in the height of fashion, so this corset is quite snug. So I give the appearance of a statue, ridiculous to the eye, but that is because I cannot move. And because I must arrive on display, I am forced into a ludicrous gown so stylish that if I move too much, I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments.

  Young Queen Charlotte : Oh, how joyful it is to be a lady.