It's Edwina Week! What are your favourite headcanons for this bean?
She's a very tactile person, very free with her affections when she feels close to someone and needing physical reassurance when she's upset.
She inherited her love of reading from her father - when she was small she would curl up in his lap while he was reading and he would read out loud to her, often weighty histories and philosophy that she was young too to understand at the time but loved because he loved them.
When she got older she reread them herself and loved them for their own sake.
She often hums to herself as she's going about her day.
She's very good at embroidery and sewing, and often remade her own gowns growing up to be economical.
Much as she loves Newton, she's more of a cat person herself and gets a beautiful calico kitten that she calls Lalla, after Lalleshwari
She's an excellent chess player, and takes advantage of the fact that her opponents always underestimate her.
She's very good with babies and small children, and can entertain them for hours with retellings of the fairytales and folk stories her father used to tell her.
So much of her identity was based on pleasing other people and not being A Problem (it was the only thing she could really do help her mother and Kate after her father died, being good and making sure they didn't need to worry about her) that after the disaster of 1814 she has to put the pieces of herself back together and rediscover who she is and what she actually likes and wants and a lot of it surprises her.
Like that although she wears a lot of pink, it's not actually her favourite colour - she likes it, but she wears it so much because she was told she looked pretty and like a proper English lady in it. Her actual favourite colours are greens, blues and yellows.
Or that she doesn't mind opera, but she prefers plays and the drama of the theatre, particularly Shakespeare but she's also partial to Aphra Behn.
She loves lemon flavoured things.
She learned to sing and play the piano because it would be expected of an accomplished lady, but prefers not to perform.
(When she meets him, Friedrich will occasionally persuade her to give him a private performance, which is usually paid for in kisses.)
Diwali is her favourite holiday, and she and Kate always make sure they celebrate together.
When she finally agrees to marry Friedrich and they have to start planning the wedding, she starts getting panic attacks at the thoughts of another hugely public ceremony and everyone watching to see what will go wrong this time.
They can't elope because of Friedrich's status, but a few nights before he takes her to a small chapel where he's arranged for them to have a private ceremony - so she can relax knowing the the big wedding is just for appearances' sake and they're already married.
She has a ring that belonged to her father's mother that she wears as a good luck charm.
She makes Anthony call her 'Your Highness' for the longest time just because she can.
She tried writing her own poetry once but it was not good.
Of her sister's many Bridgerton in-laws, she likes Benedict and Francesca the best.
Friedrich tells her he loves her before he returns to the continent to fight Napoleon, and it's almost an apology because he knows she isn't ready to say it back.
(She feels it, but she's still afraid, still can't quite trust herself.)
But one day a few months later, when he's in Paris negotiating the post-war treaty, he gets a letter that says only, "I love you, too".
He carries the letter with him wherever he goes, and Edwina tell him he's ridiculous but secretly she loves knowing, without a doubt, that it means that much to him even when they've been married for years.
