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Maybe I can give you a insight?
99% of historical romance is not historically accurate. After 2000 it's gotten to the point most historical romance are called wallpaper historical romances because there is little to define the era.
I hold Outlander as a romance because that's where you find it at the store. I don't expect it to be completely accurate.
If I was to hold a historical romance as accurate I'd have nothing in the category to read but maybe a bookshelf.
Let me give you an example. There is one book where the Duke of Wyndham has a coffee table, eat muffins and owns a bread box. This Duke also has a housekeeper who cooks, has no valet and when he asks for more lemonade instead of pulling a bell rope she travels down multiple levels to the kitchen to refill his glass. A Duke. It's set in the regency period. It was published by Sourcebooks.
This book was also a bestseller and this author has now written over 50 books. I can't say if she has gotten more accurate as I never got past her first book.
Romances do not have high standards when it comes to accuracy.
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