Society debut

Benjamin Wainwright and Harriet Slater usher in a new era in the long-awaited sequel to the hit period drama

- JO BERRY

Set 30 years after ITV's Belgravia, Victorian period drama Belgravia: The Next Chapter picks up the story of the wealthy Trenchard family.

At the end of the original series broadcast in 2020, Lord Frederick Trenchard was about to be born, and he is now grown up and about to marry. He has been raised by Oliver and Susan Trenchard, blissfully unaware that he is actually the biological son of Susan and her ex-lover John Bellasis.

And it wouldn't be a good costume drama if past secrets didn't threaten to affect his marriage to Clara Dunn. But Benjamin Wainwright, who plays Frederick, is quick to reassure potential viewers that it's not necessary to have seen Belgravia to understand the unfolding drama.