Love across the divide is a common theme in romantic stories: whether it’s Pride And Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, The Notebook or Normal People, differences in wealth, status, family expectations and cultural capital in a relationship are reliably knotty territory.

And though these popular tales of romance often have us turning to the past to understand these dynamics, the divisive nature of class hasn’t exactly gone away in contemporary Britain. We might not be stuck in such rigid, forelock-tugging hierarchies as we once were, but according to recent research by York University, your class background is depressingly still a marker for how successful you’re likely to be later in life.

In fact, rather than class becoming less entrenched in society, we are living in an era where younger generations may be more class-bound: social mobility is decreasing for young people, according to research released last summer by the Sutton Trust. And if we’re more likely to stay in the class we were born in, we’re also more likely to date within that socio-economic bracket too. According to the Resolution Foundation, Brits still “tend to couple up with those who have similar inheritance expectations to their own”.