Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. A Behind the Scenes Look at the Filming in Bath

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4 May 2023

Bath and Bridgerton go hand in hand. The city has become synonymous with Netflix’s incredibly popular TV show, having provided street locations and ballroom locations to all the series made thus far. So, it was only natural that the new spin-off series, Queen Charlotte, should also take advantage of Bath’s magnificent Georgian architecture.

The Council’s Film Office worked with the makers of Queen Charlotte for about 3 months prior to filming, which took place at some of the city’s most iconic locations.

Queen Charlotte poster, Netflix

Royal Crescent

The largest and most impressive Georgian crescent in Bath. Number One Royal Crescent has become the family home to the Featherington family in the Bridgerton TV series. This magnificent street was used once again to film for the new Queen Charlotte show.

We’re always looking for ways to minimise the impact of filming and in this instance the production shut just half the crescent, leaving the other half open to residents and for access to the hotel. The Royal Crescent is usually a no through road but we arranged for bollards at one end to be temporarily removed so that vehicles could still access the portion of road not closed for filming.

There’s actually very little 21st century street furniture such as street signs and bins in the Royal Crescent, but we facilitated what little there is being temporarily removed so that it could be dressed to look like it would have done 200 years ago. We also arranged for streetlights to be turned off for filming at night.

We arranged for the production to hire an area of Royal Victoria Park directly in front of the crescent, so they could place lights and green screens, crew dining and toilet facilities. One particularly large light on a crane was brought into the park to stand in for the moon!

TV dramas and feature films come with large numbers of technical vehicles and crew cars. The vast majority of these are kept at what is known as a ‘unit base’. Unit bases are usually situated a little further outside of the city, with kit being dropped off at the filming location and the vehicles then being parked at the unit base. And a fleet of minibuses ferrying cast and crew from the base to the filming locations. We then arrange for parking to be suspended nearby a location such as the Royal Crescent for essential tech vehicles that hold kit that needs to be accessed throughout the day.

The Royal Crescent, Bath Film Office

No. 1 Royal Crescent. Bridgerton, Copyright Netflix

The Holburne Museum

The Holburne, AKA Lady Danbury’s house in Bridgerton, was also used as a location in the Queen Charlotte series. We know from the trailers that the new show takes their friendship back to when they were young women.

We arranged access for horse boxes to Sydney Gardens so the horses could be kept close by and for other essential tech vehicles to be parked in the gardens. And we also facilitated for Sydney Place to be partially closed so that horse and carriages could be filmed entering through the gates and pulling up outside the Holburne.

The Holburne started life as the Sydney Hotel, set within Georgian pleasure gardens. It became a fine art museum in 1916, housing collections bequeathed by Sir Thomas William Holburne. The museum continues to be open to the general public. https://www.holburne.org/

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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. A Behind the Scenes Look at the Filming in Bath

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