What 17 On-Screen Couples From Famous Historical TV Shows Look Like Now

From beauties wearing gorgeous dresses and their suitors donning elegant tuxedos to lush interiors and rich mansions — you can find all these things in famous historical TV series. We used to run to the screen as soon as the first sounds of the show began because we really enjoyed every minute of the love story played out by our favorite actors.

Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, Pride and Prejudice

Jacqueline Bisset and Armand Assante, Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

Damian Lewis and Gina McKee, The Forsyte Saga

Dominic Cooper and Charity Wakefield, Sense and Sensibility

Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey

Eleanor Tomlinson and Aidan Turner, Poldark

George Blagden and Anna Brewster, Versailles

Holliday Grainger and François Arnaud, The Borgias

Tom Hiddleston and Jodie Whittaker, Cranford

Okan Yalabık and Selma Ergeç, Magnificent Century

Anna Maxwell Martin and Richard Harrington, Bleak House

Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller, Emma

Claire Foy and Matt Smith, The Crown

Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens, Jane Eyre

James Purefoy and Lyndsey Marshal, Rome

Fahriye Evcen and Burak Özçivit, Love Bird

Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton, Scarlett

Do you have a favorite on-screen couple? Maybe you’ll find some interesting facts about them in one of these articles:

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