Even Lady Whistledown might need this guide to Mayfair’s devastating breakups and magnificent love stories.
Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and her charismatic duke, Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page). Viscount Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and his beloved viscountess, Kate Bridgerton (Simone Ashley). Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), two happily married writers. These are the love stories Bridgerton is best known for, but they’re not the only ones. The Regency-era romance is filled with rakes, trysts, and burning passions of all kinds — like a bottle of fizzy champagne about to pop.
It’s enough to make you dizzy.
With so many great — and failed — pairings, even Lady Whistledown would be forgiven for forgetting a few. So raise a glass to this complete guide to every couple in Bridgerton Seasons 1–3: the breakups, the makeups, and the blissful matches worth announcing to Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel). You might even get a hint about what’s to come in Bridgerton Season 4.
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Queen Charlotte and King George
Status: Married
The marriage that keeps high society together is Queen Charlotte and King George (James Fleet). While the king is rarely seen at the balls and social events of the ton, he’s always in the heart of his spellbinding wife. Their relationship weathered the difficulties of the Georgian Period — which are revealed in Queen Charlotte, with their younger selves portrayed by India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest — and continues to burn bright.
Viscount Anthony Bridgerton and Siena Rosso
Status: Not together
The first time that viewers glimpse the young viscount he’s … enjoying the outdoors with his lover, the opera singer Siena Rosso (Sabrina Bartlett). Anthony and Siena share an undeniable attraction throughout Season 1, but the aristocrat and performer both know society will never allow them to have a future together. Preferring someone who can love her in the “light of day,” Siena breaks off the doomed romance.
Daphne Bridgerton and Lord Nigel Berbrooke
Status: Not together
Not all Bridgerton pairings are swoon-worthy. Take Daphne Bridgerton, the Diamond of the 1813 social season, and Baron Nigel Berbrooke (Jamie Beamish), a man so grotesque he refused to provide for the son he had by one of his maids. Instead, Nigel tossed the boy and his mother out on the street to live on scraps.
Nigel feels entitled to Daphne’s hand in marriage. But Lady Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) would never allow any of her daughters to wed such a brute. Through the power of gossip, Nigel is driven out of town — far away from Daphne’s ring finger.
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Daphne and Prince Friedrich
Status: Not together
While a Diamond such as Daphne should never have been subjected to the degeneracy of a man like Nigel, royalty could be the perfect match. Enter Friedrich (Freddie Stroma), a Prussian prince and nephew to Queen Charlotte. After a falling out with Duke Simon, Daphne earnestly sets her sights on the charming foreign dynast. She’s even gifted a gorgeous necklace in the courting process. But the Duke’s draw is too strong for the eldest Bridgerton daughter, and she narrowly avoids Prince Friedrich’s proposal.
Cressida Cowper and Prince Friedrich
Status: Not together
Daphne is unsurprisingly not the only one to throw her feathered hat in the ring for Friedrich’s heart. Cressida (Jessica Madsen) also vies for the prince’s attentions — and employs some artful seduction to win him over. But her attempts are unsuccessful, as Friedrich is drawn to Daphne. This is the first of Cressida’s many failed plays on the marriage mart.
Duchess Daphne and Duke Simon Basset
Status: Married
What is a jewel or a crown compared to burning passion? For Daphne, nothing. She ultimately chooses her spoon-loving duke over Prince Friedrich, turning faux dating into a very real marriage. Naturally, Daphne and Simon do not confess their love for each other until after the wedding. And they do not see eye to eye on family and the longevity of their relationship until the Season 1 finale.
They are now proud parents and the stewards of Clyvedon.
Colin Bridgerton and Marina Thompson
Status: Not together
Colin, the third Bridgerton son, is taken with Marina Thompson, a country girl who arrives in London for the 1813 season under the Featheringtons’ sponsorship. However, Marina is hiding a secret: She’s pregnant and still holds a deep, abiding love for the baby’s father, the unseen soldier George Crane.
Colin seems to be the answer to all of Marina’s problems.
He proposes quickly, unwittingly giving Marina a way to legitimize her baby with a fast marriage. Penelope attempts to end the engagement by divulging Marina and George’s relationship to Colin. He’s unmoved. So Lady Whistledown reveals Marina’s pregnancy to all of Mayfair. Finally, Colin is forced to call off the wedding.
When Colin visits with Marina in Season 2, she acknowledges the connection they shared in the past and urges him to appreciate the loved ones, like Penelope, in his present.
Lady Marina and Sir Phillip Crane
Status: Married
Eventually, Marina learns George didn’t abandon her — he died in battle. He’d been in the middle of penning his beloved a letter, declaring his commitment and his desire to run away with her to raise their child. Although George is gone, his surviving brother Sir Phillip Crane (Chris Fulton) offers to wed her in George’s stead.
Marina eventually takes Phillip up on his offer. The pair now live in the country with their twins and Phillip’s plants.
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Philippa and Albion Finch
Status: Married
Sometimes, love starts with a sneeze (and cheese). Philippa (Harriet Cains) and Albion Finch (Lorn Macdonald) first connect in 1813, the year Philippa debuts in society. But their courting journey takes many detours due to the many gambling debts of the Featherington patriarch, Archibald (Ben Miller); it’s easy to lose a dowry when you owe many shadowy figures a sixpence.
Eventually, Philippa and Albion wed, welcome a daughter, Philomena, and enjoy one the happiest marriages in Bridgerton.
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Alice and Will Mondrich
Status: Married
Will (Martins Imhangbe) first enters the purview of the ton as a close friend of Duke Simon. The working-class boxer and his wife, Alice (Emma Naomi), continue to make aristocratic chums as Will opens his gentleman’s club in Season 2. Finally, in Season 3, they join the ton when their son Nicholas (James Bryan) is named the next Baron of Kent.
As Will and Alice settle into their new station, they decide to blaze their own trail as a society couple deeply in love.
Benedict Bridgerton and Genevieve Delacroix
Status: Not together
Sparks fly between the Bridgertons’ most artistic son and Mayfair’s talented modiste, Genevieve Delacroix (Kathryn Drysdale), at one particularly free-spirited soirée. Benedict (Luke Thompson) and Genevieve continue their affair throughout Season 1. After all, as Benedict tells his little sister Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie), he’s allowed to have friends.
However, in Season 2, it’s evident that this flirtation has fizzled by the spring of 1814. Genevieve has become focused more on her art than on partying — and strongly suggests that painter Benedict should do the same.
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Anthony and Edwina Sharma
Status: Not together
Anthony strides into Season 2 determined to take a wife. He even has a list of requirements to prove it. As he realizes that none of 1814’s debs are up to his exacting standards, Miss Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) arrives on London’s foggy shores from India. Anthony is smitten, not with Edwina’s personality or even looks but with her status as the season’s Diamond. As the Viscount tells Edwina, they “align” in their “shared roles.” Romantic!
Edwina, who believes she loves Anthony, is crestfallen to realize he doesn’t share her feelings, especially because this revelation comes during their queen-sponsored wedding. “We are yoked to each other” doesn’t have the same ring as “I love you.” So Edwina refuses to marry Anthony. That Anthony loves Edwina’s sister, Kate, helps her move forward with the breakup.
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Anthony and Viscountess Kate Bridgerton
Status: Married
Although Edwina is the Diamond of 1814, Anthony is the most eligible of the ton’s bachelors. Each deb attempts to draw his attention from under their coquettish fan — except for Miss Kate Sharma, who is unimpressed by Anthony’s demanding expectations for a wife. Yet Kate and Anthony can’t help but be drawn to each other. From verbal jousting matches to steamy conversations in libraries, it becomes clear these enemies may want to be lovers instead. Anthony’s courtship — and engagement — with Kate’s sister, Edwina, only adds to the tension.
Kate and Anthony’s undeniable passion finally gets the best of them following a series of social catastrophes. Mounting obstacles keep the pair from admitting their true, immense feelings until Anthony finally confesses his and offers Kate the proposal she deserves. At last, they agree upon something, and she accepts.
In Season 3, all of their previous enmity is exchanged for marital bliss. Anthony and Kate have been making each other so happy, in fact, that their first child is on the way.
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Eloise Bridgerton and Theo Sharpe
Status: Not together
Eloise isn’t like other girls of the ton. She doesn’t meet the object of her affection over a glass of lemonade. She comes across him in an alley, in front of the print shop, in a part of London not recommended for highborn young ladies. That young man is Theo Sharpe (Calam Lynch), a printer’s apprentice with a twinkle in his eye. Eloise continues to pass time with Theo as she is charmed by his writing and progressive ideals.
Their nascent romance is dashed once Lady Whistledown outs Eloise’s “perhaps ruinous” association with “political radicals” like Theo. The youthful duo’s tearful goodbye would melt even the coldest heart.
Cressida and Lord Jack Featherington
Status: Not together
Following the death of Archibald Featherington in Season 2, a new Lord Featherington comes to Mayfair to provide for the family. Jack Featherington (Rupert Young), a distant relative, returns from America flush with cash from his jewel mines. While Portia hopes he will focus on shoring up the family’s finances, he’s more interested in pursuing an available debutante. Still-single Cressida catches his eye and is even invited to a family dinner at the Featherington house. But this love connection is felled by a classic Portia scheme.
Prudence Featherington and Jack
Status: Not together
Desperate to keep the money in the family — and her daughters in the house they shortened their hems in — Portia decides Jack should wed one of her girls. During a trip to the country, she traps Prudence (Bessie Carter) and Lord Featherington in the Aubrey Hall orangery unchaperoned. The optics suggest Jack may have compromised Prudence, which forces him to propose.
Still, this is a Portia scheme. That means something must go horribly wrong, even when everything appears to be going right …
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Lady Portia Featherington and Jack
Status: Not together
… Because Jack is poor. His supposed American jewel mines are the fancies of a skilled huckster. Jack came to London to marry into wealth — the kind the Cowper family has in spades. As Portia and Jack work together to refill their family’s coffers through devious means, they become attracted to one another.
But Portia ends the relationship once Colin uncovers their fraud. Looking to continue the con oversees, Jack asks Portia to abandon her daughters and return to the colonies with him. She refuses, ending the romance — and Prudence’s engagement.
Benedict and Tessa
Status: Not together
She’s an art school model. He’s an art school artist. Can I make it any more obvious? The creative duo enjoy a short-lived affair during Season 2 — and Tessa (Emily Barber) even inspires some of Benedict’s best work. But their relationship collapses once Benedict chooses to leave the Royal Academy of Art.
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Prudence and Harry Dankworth
Status: Married
At the start of Season 3, Philippa and Prudence are both married women. Prudence’s new husband is Harry Dankworth (James Phoon), a man who makes up for his lack of title with his extreme prettiness. Although the couple may not immediately master the art of matrimonial familiarity, they manage to conceive their first child, a daughter.
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Cressida and Lord Debling
Status: Not together
Cressida enters Season 3 still on the hunt for a husband — always a debutante, never a bride. She takes aim at one of the marriage mart’s most eligible prospects: Lord Debling (Sam Phillips), an environmentalist and, gasp, a vegetarian. Ever an expert in flirtation, Cressida manages to hold his attention following the great balloon catastrophe of 1815. Still …
Penelope Featherington and Lord Debling
Status: Not together
… Cressida suffers yet another romantic disappointment. Debling decides to court Penelope instead of the ton’s most heavily adorned debutante. Debling and Penelope share a comfortable rapport and each have their own passions. He loves birds. She loves sitting at her windowsill reading. Debling is moved enough by this commonality that he prepares to propose to Penelope at the queen’s ball.
But his plan is foiled by two large obstacles. First, Penelope is visibly disappointed to learn Debling seeks a practical match and doesn’t foresee love ever entering his marriage. His work is his love, but Penelope, at her core, is a romantic. Then there’s the matter of Colin Bridgerton. Debling realizes Penelope has eyes for her world-traveling neighbor and rejects Penelope in return. She’s taken aback, because Penelope believes Colin could never return her feelings.
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Penelope and Colin Bridgerton
But even Lady Whistledown can be wrong. Penelope and Colin first meet years before Bridgerton, when the former’s wayward hat knocked the latter off of his horse. Penelope was immediately smitten. Colin was oblivious. The scales fall from his eyes in 1815, once Penelope readies herself to find a husband — anyone surely but Colin Bridgerton. As Penelope settles on Lord Debling, Colin’s jealousy is ignited. Overcome with devotion, he thwarts his rival’s proposal.
Once Penelope is free of Debling, Colin professes his love. Penelope is shocked but delighted by the revelation, leading to a very joyous carriage ride. At the end of the excursion, Colin proposes.
Following weeks of tumult over a long-held secret — yes, dearest reader, Penelope and Lady Whistledown are one and the same — the pair marry. Mr. and Mrs. Bridgerton eventually transform their troubled feelings into something beautiful and reestablish their love for each other. In a flash-forward to 1816, we see the happy couple welcome their first child, a son who will be the next Lord Featherington.
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Benedict and Lady Tilley Arnold (and Paul Suarez)
Status: Not together
Benedict can find romance anywhere: a party, art school — even a hot-air balloon symposium. There, the second Bridgerton son bumps into widow Tilley Arnold (Hannah New), setting off an exciting new affair. Tilley is not the kind of woman looking to be called upon. She would much rather a midday tryst or a tray of biscuits. Tilley is also quite fond of her friend Paul (Lucas Aurelio) and invites Benedict to join their established, casual relationship.
The dynamics of this throuple bring forth a change in Tilley. Suddenly, she craves a serious relationship with Benedict. However, he declines; their relationship stirred the opposite feeling in him. Benedict desires romantic freedom more than anything at the end of Season 3.
Lady Violet Bridgerton and Lord Marcus Anderson
Status: Figuring it out
In the winter of 1814, Violet realizes that after years as a widow, she yearns for some gardening. When Lord Marcus Anderson (Daniel Francis) arrives in Mayfair the following spring, he appears worthy of wielding a rake (but not being a rake, no matter what his sister, Lady Danbury, assumes). Marcus confirms his romantic intentions at the close of Season 3, and the pair share a charming dance at the Dankworth-Finch ball.
Francesca Bridgerton and Lord Samadani
Status: Not together
Most debutantes would offer their deepest curtsy for the mere chance to be named the queen’s sparkler. Francesca (Hannah Dodd) wins the title by playing the piano. With that laurel comes a courtship with Lord Samadani (David Mumeni), a dear friend of Queen Charlotte. But Samadani dreams of a family as bustling as the Bridgertons. Shy, quiet Francesca is immediately uninterested in a future with the lord — let alone his lemonade.
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Lady Francesca and Lord John Stirling
Status: Married
Some say that Bridgertons cannot help but draw the spotlight. Francesca hopes not. The only introverted Bridgerton finds her match in Earl John (Victor Alli), a Scottish lord who shares Francesca’s distaste for attention. While the pair lack the explosive, tumultuous connection Violet has come to expect for her children, lovebirds Francesca and John eventually gain the matriarch’s support. They are married at the end of Season 3 and set out for Scotland to establish their household together.
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Benedict Bridgerton and the Lady in Silver
Status: Coming soon
The Bridgerton family’s most bohemian sibling will find his match posthaste. At the upcoming Bridgerton masquerade ball, a mysterious Lady in Silver will capture Benedict’s heart and mind. But will he ever learn her true identity? And what will happen when the clock strikes 12 on their love story? You’ll have to wait until Bridgerton Season 4 debuts on Netflix to find out.
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