Netflix has finally dropped the first trailer for the much-anticipated Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

The new limited series spinoff will chronicle the early years of Golda Rosheuvel’s Queen Charlotte from the main series. 

This time around, India Amarteifio, previously seen in Line of Duty, plays the young monarch in this brand-new backstory.

The trailer opens with the young Queen Charlotte traveling in a horse-drawn carriage demanding: ‘Why me?’ to her companion.

‘Charlotte,’ he insists, ‘There are worse fates than marrying the King of England’ as she looks forlornly out the window.

The next scene cuts to Charlotte preparing for the wedding, with a voice-over explaining: ‘It is time we were united as a society,’ while another states bluntly: ‘You will make lots of babies. As many babies as possible.’

Queen Charlotte is initially apprehensive about the marriage (Picture: LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX)

Concerned about her upcoming nuptials, and her husband-to-be, Charlotte asks her secretary Brimsley (Hugh Sachs), if he’s ‘deformed or ugly.’

‘He is the King,’ he replies curtly, with Charlotte imploring: ‘Yes. And…’ before turning on her heel.

Her first encounter with King George (Corey Mylchreest) is then shown with Charlotte tries to escape over the garden wall, asking him for help.

But soon appears to fall for King George (Picture: LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX)

Refusing to come to her aide, he explains: ‘I refuse to when she is trying to go over a wall so that she does not have to marry me.’

According to the streaming platform, the series will be ‘centered on Queen Charlotte’s rise to prominence and power’.

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‘This Bridgerton-verse prequel tells the story of how the young Queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton,’ the description reads. 

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story premieres May 4 on Netflix.

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