Bridgerton’s Golda Rosheuvel Reveals If She’d Do Another Spinoff About Queen Charlotte (Exclusive)

The 2023 prequel series, led by India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest, explored the Queen’s early life and quickly became a fan favorite

Is there more where Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story came from?

The prequel series, which premiered in 2023 on Netflix, explored the origin story of a young Queen Charlotte, played by India Amarteifio, and her arranged marriage to King George (Corey Mylchreest), and has long been a fan-favorite amongst the Bridgerton audience.

Golda Rosheuvel, who plays the Queen in the series, tells PEOPLE it was “wonderful” to dive into her character’s backstory and give fans a closer look at why the Queen is who she is through the spinoff. She also weighs in on a hot topic amongst fans…

“I don’t know personally whether I want another Queen Charlotte spinoff,” Rosheuvel says. “I’d like another character’s spinoff. I think there’s a lot of scope to delve into other characters’ prequel origin stories.”

Production on the spinoff, she says, overlapped with seasons 2 and 3 of Bridgerton, which was “a weird thing and sometimes quite a difficult thing to do.”

“It was this really interesting, weird thing where we were filming Bridgerton and yet filming Charlotte, grabbing all this information that we needed in Bridgerton,” she recalls.

“I was like, ‘I have 15 children, and I now know what they look like.’ And then the next day, I would go and film Bridgerton, now knowing what my children looked like. Before, they were just a figment of [my] imagination.”

There’s been something very full-circle, though, about the stories explored in Queen Charlotte and Bridgerton season 4, Rosheuvel says. “I think what is beautiful with filming season 4 is, I feel as though the [Queen and Lady Danbury] have gone all the way back to Queen Charlotte and really taken all of that stuff — Charlotte, season 1, season 2, season 3 — and it all is encapsulated in that one scene,” she says of the moment Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) tells the Queen she wants to leave London to see her ancestral homeland.

Rosheuvel teases that there are also “a couple of scenes” in season 4, part 2, as well, “where I just feel the whole of that history [from Queen Charlotte] is just encapsulated in these scenes.”

Shonda Rhimes, the creator of the spinoff and executive producer on both shows, has often spoken about the possibility of revisiting Queen Charlotte for a season 2, and she told Variety last year that she’s “trying to figure it out still,” but Netflix “ask[s] me this question all the time.”

“I don’t want to tell a story that doesn’t need to be told — do you know what I mean? I don’t want to make a second season of Queen Charlotte, and you’re going to be, like, ‘Well, that was not that great.’ ”

Mylchreest, 27, also weighed in on the possibility of revisiting the series, as he told Brit + Co last year that the “rumors” of a season 2 were “news to me.”

“Really, I wish that I could say anything or know anything, but I really don’t, unfortunately,” he said.