The Instagram images showcase relatable style and calculated spontaneity, while raising questions about roses

To anyone following their two-year romance, Taylor Swift’s engagement to the American football star Travis Kelce was no great surprise. Nor was the choreographed nature of the engagement shoot.

The series of five photographs, posted on Instagram and now liked 35m times, feature the couple in various acts of staged proposal within a landscaped garden festooned with roses and urns.