Bridgerton: what does the bee mean in bridgerton?

All eight episodes of Bridgerton are streaming on Netflix now and over 63 million households have watched the romantic period-drama. After binge-watching the series, fans want to know

everything about the show from the cast, soundtrack to the meaning of the Bridgerton bee. What does the bee mean in Bridgerton? Express.co.uk has everything you need to know.  _WARNING: THIS

ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT BRIDGERTON_ WHAT DOES THE BEE MEAN IN BRIDGERTON? In the Bridgerton finale, Daphe and the Duke (Regé-Jean Page) got their happy ever after ending fans had

hoped for. The last viewers saw of Daphe and the Duke were holding their newborn son, looking lovingly into the eyes of each other. Viewers then followed a bee out of the bedroom and onto

Daphne's windowsill. The bee is an Easter egg in the series and also a nod to the Julia Quinn romantic novel series Bridgerton is based on. Fans of the novels and tv series suspect the

bee in the finale signifies the series will follow the order of the books, with book two focusing on Daphne's older brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey). Book two, titled The Viscount Who

Loved Me, deals with the traumatic effect Anthony's father's death had on him and the role it plays in his marriage. Anthony, who was 18 at the time of his father's death, is

convinced he too will die young and as a result, fears dying, commitment and love. READ MORE BRIDGERTON DRESSES: HOW ACCURATE ARE THE BRIDGERTON COSTUMES? The bee appears throughout the

series, most notable at the very beginning of episode one. In the episode, the bee is resting on the Bridgerton's door knocker and fans of the original novel will have known instantly

what the bee represented. In the Netflix series, Daphne's father's death is never explained but readers of the novels will know Edmund Bridgerton died from a bee sting, leaving

Anthony, his eldest son, as the patriarch of the family. In episode seven, Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) has a small black bee on the collar of his shirt, most likely a nod to his late

father. "But I think fans of the book are going to see all the elements they love on screen too — and that is elements like the bees, and that is the way that the siblings banter with

each other and the love amongst the Bridgerton family. "The way Violet loves her family with a fierceness, and the way that the brothers bicker and joke with each other. And then, of

course, there’s Daphne and Simon’s romance. "It’s so moving and it’s so sweeping, and that really provides the bedrock for season one."