Daphne Basset (Phoebe Dynevor) and her charismatic duke, Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page). Viscountess Kate Bridgerton (Simone Ashley) and her beloved viscount, Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey). Penelope Bridgerton (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), two happily married writers. Sophie Bridgerton and her fairy-tale match, Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson). You can find all these epic Bridgerton romances streaming only on Netflix. 

And now, as Bridgerton looks ahead to Season 5, all eyes turn to Francesca Stirling (Hannah Dodd) as a new love story begins to take shape with Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza).

These are the romances the hit show is best known for, but they’re not the only ones. The Regency-era series 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 1–4: the breakups, the makeups, and the blissful matches worth announcing to Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel). 

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Queen Charlotte and King George 

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 (and, at the Season 4 masquerade ball, the hair) of his spellbinding wife. Their relationship weathered the difficulties of the Georgian Period — which are revealed in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, with their younger selves portrayed by India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest — and continues to burn bright. 

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Viscount Anthony Bridgerton and Siena Rosso

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. 

In Season 4, when Anthony is lecturing Benedict about the younger brother’s upstairs, downstairs relationship with Sophie, Benedict responds with a sly nod to this affair: “If you wish to compare apples to opera singers, we can certainly do that,” says Benedict. 

Daphne Bridgerton and Lord Nigel Berbrooke 

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 — and far away from Daphne’s ring finger. 

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Daphne and Prince Friedrich  

A Diamond such as Daphne should never have been subjected to the degeneracy of a man like Nigel, but 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 

Daphne isn’t the only one who throws 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 she’s unsuccessful, as Friedrich is drawn to Daphne. This is the first of Cressida’s many failed plays on the marriage mart. 

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Duchess Daphne and Duke Simon Basset

What’s a jewel or a crown compared to a 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 the proud parents of August and the stewards of Clyvedon. 

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Marina Thompson  and Colin Bridgerton

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. But 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 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 Marina in Season 2, she acknowledges the connection they shared in the past and urges him to appreciate the loved ones, like Penelope, he has in the present. 

Lady Marina and Sir Phillip Crane 

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

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 courtship 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 of the happiest marriages in Bridgerton. 

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Alice and Will Mondrich 

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. In Season 4, they face some exciting opportunities. After Alice proves her mettle with the gossip-insatiable queen, Lady Danbury nominates her to be the queen’s next lady-in-waiting. At first, Alice is surprised, and has no interest in taking the position. But she comes to realize that joining the queen’s inner circle could bestow the power to make real change throughout British society. Alice wields her newfound clout to help unite Benedict and Sophie in the Season 4 finale.

Benedict Bridgerton and Genevieve Delacroix

Sparks fly between the Bridgertons’ most artistic son and Mayfair’s talented modiste, Genevieve Delacroix (Kathryn Drysdale), at one particularly free-spirited soirée. Genevieve and Benedict continue their affair throughout Season 1. After all, as Benedict tells his little sister Eloise (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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Edwina Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton

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 from India on London’s foggy shores. 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 when 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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Viscountess Kate and Anthony Bridgerton

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 a steamy conversation in a library, it becomes clear these enemies may want to be lovers instead. Anthony’s courtship with — and engagement to — 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 they have gone to India together to welcome their first child. 

They return to Mayfair in Season 4, Part 2, with a new baby boy, Edmund, in tow. Edmund may not be able to walk yet, but his father has high hopes for his Pall Mall abilities. As the son of the viscount, Edmund is next in line to lead the family estate, replacing his uncle Benedict. 

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Eloise Bridgerton and Theo Sharpe 

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 the time with Theo, as she’s 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 

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. Cressida, still single, catches his eye and is even invited to a family dinner at the Featherington house. But this love connection is brought down by a classic Portia scheme.  

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Prudence Featherington and Jack  

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 Aubrey Hall’s 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  

 … 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 overseas, 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 

She’s an art school model. He’s an art school student. Can I make it any more obvious? The creative duo enjoys a short-lived affair during Season 2 — and Tessa (Emily Barber) even inspires some of Benedict’s best work. But their relationship falls apart when Benedict chooses to leave the Royal Academy of Art. 

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Prudence and Harry Dankworth 

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 master the art of matrimonial familiarity, they manage to conceive their first child, a daughter.  

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Cressida and Lord Debling 

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 grabs his attention following the great balloon catastrophe of 1815. Still … 

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Penelope Featherington and Lord Debling 

 … 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 met years before Bridgerton, when the former’s wayward hat knocked the latter off his horse. Penelope was 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. When Penelope settles on Lord Debling, it ignites Colin’s jealousy. 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 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 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, Elliot, who will be the next Lord Featherington. A baby, however, has not put a stop to their carriage antics. In Part 2, the happy couple navigates what it means for Penelope to be known publicly as Lady Whistledown. Towards the end of the season, she decides to retire, only for a new scribe to step up and take her place.

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Benedict and Lady Tilley Arnold (and Paul Suarez) 

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 have 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 transform 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, but that changes when he first lays eyes on the Lady in Silver in Season 4. 

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Lady Violet Bridgerton and Lord Marcus Anderson 

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. 

The Bridgerton matriarch’s garden welcomes long-overdue sun and water in Season 4. After enjoying a few secret rendezvous during Parts 1 and 2, Violet realizes that she’s not ready to settle down so soon after regaining her independence. The two say an amicable goodbye at the queen’s ball in the finale.

Francesca Bridgerton and Lord Samadani

Most debutantes would offer their deepest curtsy for the mere chance to be named the queen’s sparkler. Francesca wins the title instead 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 

Some say the Bridgertons can’t help but draw the spotlight. Francesca hopes not. The only introverted Bridgerton finds her match in Earl John Stirling (Victor Alli), a Scottish lord who shares Francesca’s distaste for attention. The pair lack the explosive, tumultuous connection Violet has come to expect for her children, but the lovebirds eventually gain the matriarch’s support. They are married at the end of Season 3 and set out for his family’s estate in Scotland to establish their household together. 

Season 4 welcomes them back to Mayfair, after a quiet honeymoon befitting their comfortable bond. Yet, tragedy strikes the understated couple in Part 2 of Season 4: After complaining of a headache, John dies unexpectedly. Francesca is distraught after losing the person she describes as her “truest friend” and “great love.”  

Benedict and Louis  

Benedict pops by the demimonde before attending his mother’s masquerade for a “dose of merriment to sustain him.” Louis is happy to oblige, but it’s merely a quick rendezvous before Benedict is off to Bridgerton House. 

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Mr. and Mrs. Crabtree 

The Crabtree couple tend Benedict’s countryside cottage: She’s the house manager and he’s the cook. The duo play a pivotal role in helping both Sophie and Benedict navigate their upstairs, downstairs relationship.

Cressida and Lord Penwood

In Episode 6, the new Lord Penwood and his mysterious bride arrive in Mayfair. Their nuptials were so secretive, however, that not even Whistledown knows who the new Lady Penwood is — that is, until Cressida calls on Penelope in search of some good Whistledown press to ease her transition back to the ton. Cressida’s shiny new marriage and title of Lady Penwood only protect her so much from her wrongdoings of seasons past. But, at least, Cressida gets the chance to clear the air with her old friend Eloise. 

Rosamund Li and Lord Stotter 

Araminta Gun (Katie Leung) spends the season scheming on behalf of her eldest daughter, Rosamund Li (Michelle Mao). Her agenda pays off, earning Rosamund a proposal from Lord Stotter (Jamie Cho). But when Stotter finds out that Rosamund’s dowry is lower than advertised — thanks to years of Araminta incorrectly distributing what was owed to Sophie — he leaves her at the queen’s ball. Penelope then reveals that Lord Stotter is known around Mayfair as a “fortune hunter.” 

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Sophie Bridgerton and Benedict Bridgerton

The Bridgerton family’s bohemian sibling finds his match in Season 4. At his mother’s masquerade ball, the mysterious Lady in Silver immediately captures Benedict’s heart and mind. In Part 2, however, he forgoes his fantasy of the Lady in Silver to chase the reality of his feelings for Sophie, the resourceful maid he grows close to after saving her from an abusive employer. Benedict falls for Sophie, not realizing she’s the Lady in Silver. 

Still, Benedict faces obstacles as he chooses the reality of Sophie over the dream of his mysterious masquerade dance partner. Pursuing a maid means risking his family’s reputation, his younger sister’s marital prospects, and complete ostracization from the ton. Their chemistry proves too powerful, and Benedict can think of no one else. 

In the final, climactic episodes of Season 4, Benedict learns that Sophie is in fact the Lady in Silver — and the daughter of a late nobleman. The Bridgertons deduce that Sophie’s stepmother, Araminta, has been embezzling Sophie’s dowry for years to protect her own daughters. With the help of Alice Mondrich, Eloise, and Violet, Sophie reclaims her status, and is able to freely be with Benedict. He wastes no time in proposing to her at the queen’s ball. We don’t have to wait for Season 5 to know that they’ll live happily ever after, since Benedict and Sophie marry in Season 4’s surprise final scene.

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Francesca Stirling and Michaela Stirling 

Two years after losing her beloved husband, John, Francesca has a plan: Reenter the marriage mart and secure a practical match. But even the best-laid plans can change once you throw in a dash of “chaos” — a quality for which Miss Michaela Stirling is widely known. In Bridgerton Season 5, well-traveled Michaela will head back to Mayfair to help manage the Kilmartin estate. 

Just as Francesca readies herself for a careful next step, she will be confronted by the woman who once spun her out of the deepest depths of grief with a single stag dance. Will the Countess of Kilmartin stick to her pragmatic intentions and follow the path laid out before her, or will she reach for an unexpected puzzle piece? You’ll have to wait until Bridgerton Season 5 — which is now filming — debuts on Netflix to find out. 

Catch up with these couples on the companion podcast, Bridgerton: The Official Podcast. 

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