Francesca shares the news through her Instagram feed, posting a pic of herself and Matteo in an intimate embrace as a message on her hand read "I said yes."

The model, who is also an interior designer also shows off the diamond ring with which her boyfriend of eight years proposed.

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Captioning the snap in Italian, she wrote "Exactly eight years after our first meeting... I said yes to the man of my dreams."

Francesca moved to Manchester with her boo after his transfer to Manchester United from Italian football club, Torino in 2015.