Los Angeles, Dec. 26 -- True to the spirit of Lady Whistledown's ever watchful pen, the first trailer for "Bridgerton" season 4 part 1 has arrived and it promises a sumptuous, Cindrella-inflected love story centred on the family's second son, Benedict Bridgerton.
The fourth instalment of Shondaland's lavish adaptation of Julia Quinn's novels pivots towards Benedict (Luke Thompson), the family's artistic second son and self-styled libertine, whose resistance to matrimony begins to unravel after a single, fateful encounter. His resolve begins to falter, however, after a chance encounter with a masked woman at an opulent masquerade ball hosted by Lady Violet Bridgerton. Season 4 follows the love story in Quinn's An Offer From A Gentleman.
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