Julia Quinn on Bridgerton (Part 1)
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and while yes, I am awesome, this podcast is about |
| 0:14.1 | people and the things that they have to offer to you. I believe in speaking things into existence. |
| 0:20.1 | So it is with that, I offer you these amazing |
| 0:22.7 | people, these awesome topics. Sit back and enjoy. Today, I'm super excited because when I get to talk |
| 0:28.9 | with people who write, you know that's my sweet spot. I love authors. I think the world of |
| 0:35.4 | folly and fiction is where our humanity is and we don't spend enough time |
| 0:40.6 | I believe in fantasy so I mean outside of the fantasy of where we are now but that's another |
| 0:46.1 | story for another day let me welcome to the show she is the co-author of queen Charlotte um those of |
| 0:52.9 | you who are into the bridgetin world as I am, this story is |
| 0:57.9 | amazing. And let's welcome in the author herself, Ms. Julia Quinn. Welcome to the Karen Hunter Show. |
| 1:04.4 | Hi. Hi. Thank you for having me. Listen, you know, the process, I've written 30 books, but they've been nonfiction. You know, |
| 1:14.7 | I come into it as a journalist. Where did you, first of all, when did you run into the actual |
| 1:22.1 | Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg? Well, so this is, this is really a question for Shonda. I'll be honest with you. So Queen Charlotte |
| 1:32.0 | was not a character in the original Bridgeton novels. And the writer's room, Shonda and Chris Van Dusen, |
| 1:39.9 | who was the original showrunner for the Netflix show, made the decision to add her, which I think |
| 1:47.9 | was the most brilliant change ever. And she created this incredible framework for the British and |
| 1:53.2 | world. She was the way or the mechanism by which they were able to make it a more diverse society. They went with a real historical |
| 2:03.1 | mystery, which was, was Queen Charlotte of mixed race. And we know that she definitely had some |
| 2:10.0 | African blood, but we have no idea to what degree that she actually looked as she did or |
| 2:15.4 | anything like that. And they went with the idea saying, |
| 2:19.8 | okay, let's say she was. And let's say this was accepted. How would this have changed society? |
| 2:23.9 | And they were able to create this, you know, slightly alternate universe, which we now call |
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