Historian and TV presenter Lucy Worsley has said romance is dying because it has become “too easy” to meet new people via dating apps and the net.

In an interview with the Radio Times, she said couples no longer faced the obstacles that had traditionally made for strong romantic encounters.

The “slow exquisite torture” of love in Jane Austen novels no longer existed in the age of Grindr and Tinder, she said.

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