I don't find Conde attractive at all, and Francis looks like a 12 year old even though his actor is half way through his 20s. Yes, characters own their actors.
Hmmm?
Mary and Elizabeth should get married.
It would solve all their problems.
I'm also watching Wolf Hall, which is a more serious friendly to history tv series about what Elizabeth's father went through to invent divorce. Henry is a minor character played by that gingernut from Homeland Damien Lewis. If anyone in the 16th was going to make the Church of England recognize gay rights, it'd probably be the head of the Church of England, the fricking Queen (or King.).
So what if they're not gay?
Alligning political powers is more important than the needs of children loving or not loving, being attracted to or not being attracted to almost certainly the rapists they are forced to marry.