Bridgerton is an American streaming television series created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes. It is based on Julia Quinn's novels set in an alternative history version of the Regency era during the London's Ton season, when debutantes were presented at court.

In Season 1 Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings and an eligible bachelor was raised primarily by his aunt and the servants employed by his father at the country estate, after his mother died in childbirth