Pity the poor Featheringtons, the garish “Bridgerton” family struggling to socially match their graceful, connected and wealthy namesake neighbors across the street. Season 3 finds their matriarch Portia (Polly Walker) secretly fretting over money problems having to do with inheritance law, placing her at the mercy of her ne’er-do-well male cousin.
Specifically, a document specifies that one of her married idiot daughters must produce a male heir with haste lest they lose their generous home and the allowances that come with it, including their social standing.
