Francesca and Michaela will be the first same-sex couple to be in the show's central relationship.

New main stars will be part of romance traditionally ‘excluded from period dramas’

Francesca and Michaela will be the first same-sex couple to be in the show's central relationship.

In a first for the juggernaut show, Francesca Bridgerton will find herself in a ‘complicated’ relationship with her cousin-in-law Michaela Stirling