This text comprises spoilers about The Buccaneers season 2 premiere, titled "The Duchess of Tintagel."

• Leighton Meester joins the forged of The Buccaneers in season 2 and brings an explosive secret in her wake.
• She's Nan's mom and her aunt (slap).
• Will Nan study the reality? And the way a lot tougher will it’s to forgive her mom for this secret?

We doubt even Gossip Lady may've seen this one coming.

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+'s collection a couple of group of American heiresses who journey to England in search of husbands, is again for a second season — and it's bringing the mom of all secrets and techniques out within the open.

The primary season ended with the revelation that Nan St. George's (Kristine Froseth) delivery mom was in attendance at Nan's wedding ceremony to Theo (Man Remmers), Duke of Tintagel. In the course of the low season, Leighton Meester joined the forged, and followers instantly suspected that she can be taking part in Nan's mom.

They have been spot on, however there's an additional layer to this secret. Nell (Meester) just isn’t merely Nan's organic mom and the previous lover of Nan's father, Colonel Tracy St. George (Adam James). She can be the sister of Mrs. Patricia St. George (Christina Hendricks), the lady that Nan believed was her mom for 19 years.

So, not solely has Mrs. St. George been retaining Nan's illegitimacy a secret, however she's additionally been concealing the truth that it was her personal sister who birthed her. When Nell arrives on the wedding ceremony reception and makes a passive aggressive remark about being launched to Nan (and certainly not even being invited), Mrs. St. George introduces her solely as her sister and Nan's aunt.

"Mrs. St. George's greatest concern for 19 years is that Nan may discover out the reality of who her actual mom is," showrunner Katherine Jakeways tells Leisure Weekly. "She's completely been holding that stress and holding that concern at midnight recesses of the night time for Nan's entire life, actually. So, the truth that Nell turns up throughout Nan's wedding ceremony is the worst-case situation."

"Mrs. St. George will completely struggle tooth and nail to cease Nan from realizing," Jakeways continues. "And it's not a call that she's pleased with. She prides herself on being an actual lioness of a mom and being an actual nurturing mom. She realizes that she's placing her personal pursuits above Nan's, and it's a second for her to mirror on whether or not she's the type of mom that she at all times thought she was and needed to be."

For Meester, it's the far tougher tablet to swallow within the situation. "That component of the key is so deep and darkish," she tells EW. "It wasn't simply that Nan was born out of wedlock. It's that there was this horrible, hurtful betrayal, and that's been shrouded in secrecy all these years, too."

Certainly, it’s the truth that Nan doesn't solely even keep in mind that her aunt exists that offers Nell pause in relation to revealing the reality. "Nell got here not completely with a plan, however realizing that now this data is on the market," Meester provides of Nan's consciousness of her previous. "Nan is illegitimate, and that shameful factor she's been holding onto for therefore lengthy is perhaps not value holding onto. However Nell finds out that extra secrets and techniques have been saved which have made the unique secret not as dangerous. She finds out that her being Nan's mom might not even be the worst half."

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Jakeways notes that every one of Mrs. St. George's selections on this realm are pushed by self-preservation above all else. "It's a egocentric transfer, finally, isn't it?" the showrunner says. "She simply doesn't wish to let Nan go."

However it should take intensive reparation between the sisters to reach at a spot the place the reality could possibly be informed. "Till they’ve unpacked their points with one another and understood each of their experiences of Nan's delivery, they will't actually see previous that," Jakeways provides. "She's simply not going to let Nell have that win. It's fairly an easy resolution for Mrs. St. George originally of that episode. She simply needs Nell gone."

Within the episode, Mrs. St. George begins to comprehend the price of her selections, reminding Nell that earlier than she was a mom, she had a child sister. The 2 reconcile and determine to journey again to New York collectively. Nevertheless, when Nan learns throughout their departure that the sisters had sparely spoken for 19 years, she begins to place the items collectively.

"It's a really darkish storyline and situation, and it hits each character fairly exhausting," Christina Hendricks says. "Nan discovering that her mom's saved this secret for this whole time, which is one thing her father would've accomplished. And Nan not likely understanding why there's such a very damaged relationship between these two sisters. It's a darkish household secret."

That could be, however it's clear that Nan is already suspicious of the reality.

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