Casey McQuiston

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince.

As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?

A Novel

Red, White & Royal Blue

Charlotte 

And there it is. He's been teetering on the edge of letting go of this specific dream for months now, terrified of it, but the relief is startling, a mountain off his back. 

* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Bethany Jenkins

“The next slide is titled: 'Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?'”

"Shakepearean in that hopefully I'll get stabbed to death." 

🌸Savannah 🌸

You are quite literally Queen Victoria's Worst nightmare 

Margarida Santos

I thought, God, that's it, isn't it? Just following the plan. And it's not that he's unhappy. He's fine. It's all very deeply fine. A whole lifetime of fine. (…) That's not good enough for me.

Dione Jansen

"you are," he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had." 

I'm rereading this via audiobook because I'm more productive when I have a fun audiobook 🤪

Shannon Leigh Williams

Srijita Sarkar 

 I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.

He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn't bright enough.

"What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius?his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. 

Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic". 

Summary from Amazon

Ibelin Eliis Andersen Guddingsmo

Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves they're straight.

How was he supposed to know back then if he wanted to look like other guys, or if he 

* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Red, White and Royal Blue

jana 

He came from a long, long line of princes, but never before had there been a prince quite like him. Born with his heart on the outside of his body.

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Are you suggesting you'd rather exchange passionate letters by candle light? Should I say that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in my dreams? That when I sleep, I see you; the tip of your waist, the freckle above your hip. And when I wake up in the morning it feels like I've just been with you. The phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck, fresh, and not imagined. That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache. That for a few moments I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all.

it's always the ones with a cute lil illustration on the cover

"Remus John Lupin is gay as the day is long and I won't hear a word against it."

i'm kinda glad i dnfed this last year because i was not ready-

“Please do smack me if this is out of line, but you are the most exquisite woman I have ever seen in my life, and I would like to procure for you the most lavish drink in this establishment if you will let me.”

“You’re a charmer,” June says, smiling indulgently.

Haha. Typical child to say that he didn‘t start it. 

Vicky

"Sugar, I cannot express to you how much the press does not give a fuck about who started what" 

Don't know why I laughed so much when I read this

Omar Fernandez

He feels like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out. Especially when June says, "You're like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out."

Alex spends the entire 26th holed up in the Social Secretary's office with June, going over the waivers they've gotten for everyone to sign after a daughter of a Real Housewife fell down the rotunda stairs last year; Alex remains impressed that she didn't spill her margarita.

"Look," Zahra says, taking a drag from her massive stain less steel thermos of coffee. "Both sides need to come out of this looking good, and the only way to do that is to make it look like your little slap-fight at the wedding was some homo erotic frat bro mishap, okay? So, you can hate the heir to the throne all you want, write mean poems about him in your di ary, but the minute you see a camera, you act like the sun shines out of his dick, and you make it convincing."

Brooke

Elicia Au Duong

oh to be in love like it's us against the world and WINNING

Joana da Silva

Cute, funny and oh-so-relevant. What an important message. Live your own truth, kiddos!

jupiter

i’ve obviously really enjoyed this book all things considered but several things have come to my attention that i must now take into account so 😐

I don’t really read a lot of contemporary romance, and I think at the end of the day I just wanted there to be a little bit more to the book. 

But overall I enjoyed reading it a lot. It was often quite funny. The romantic emails and pining and banter were all very cute 10/10. I loved escaping into an America where the President is female, her son is openly bisexual, and Texas votes blue. 

A fun escape, but probably won’t really stick with me. 

I don’t really read a lot of contemporary romance, and I think at the end of the day I just wanted there to be a little bit more to the book. 

But overall I enjoyed reading it a lot. It was often quite funny. The romantic emails and pining and banter were all very cute 10/10. I loved escaping into an America where the President is female, her son is openly bisexual, and Texas votes blue. 

A fun escape, but probably won’t really stick with me. 

Glenda

i really loved alex and henry sm, the rest of the cast was o k a y but once you got past the halfway point it became soo.... fanfic-y? and the pacing became a drag. i got the collector's edition and that extra chapter was so worth it but did not make me wanna give it the 4th star. booktok u overhyped this once again i would def recommend the charm offensive by alison cochrun instead, bestie can write phew. (i heard there's a movie coming out, i will def still be eating that up)

Abby Williamson

Nicole Finlay

** spoiler alert **
           This and Time War have both brought me something I didn't know I needed, people happy being people. I would have liked a sequel from Henry's perspective but loved Alex's confusing yet hilarious inner monologue. In this book, there were 3 rounds of heartbreak: when Henry left Alex, when Rafael Luna left for Richards, and when the Richards campaign leaked Alex and Henry's emails. We recovered from them all. This was a love story told through politics and history's letters from lost lovers. This masterpiece is one of my favourite books of 2022 and my favourite book of December 2022.

Isadora Cal

I cried a few times. It’s the kind of forbidden romance that makes you cry because it shouldn’t be forbidden and we are in 2020 not in some Brontë reality, but people still face issues for loving freely. I don’t even know what I am writing at this time of the night, but I loved this book, and the way they fall in love, and how it’s like so many fanfictions I’ve read but better.

Amazing book, good story, political and very gay, but I love that

Brenda 🌙

“give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart. there’s so much of you.” i am about to reread this book twice a year until the day i pass away that’s how much i love it

Lauryn Page

This was such a good book for our time. I loved that had a true acceptance quality as well as a little sexy quality to it. It really got me in my feels! Casey McQuiston did a fabulous job of pushing together to separate world issues and controversies, and made it a collar coaster of emotions. Loved this book!

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. Then photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids. The plan for damage control: stage a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex soon discovers that beneath Henry's Prince Charming veneer, there's a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. -- adapted from back cover

Gillian Rose

Once again, I scream "WHY DON'T I READ MORE CONTEMPORARY???"

Seriously, this book was an utter delight. I couldn't wait to pick it up each night because it filled me joy and hope. I loved it so much.

Cassandra Gregory

I always wish I could give a half star. I very rarely give anything a 5 but this feels more deserving than a 4. I recognize it’s cheesy and it has politics in the mix but I thought it was also just cute. I just took it at face value for the cheesy, feel good, overly idealistic book that it was. The world is so full of bad it’s nice to have a little break from it from time to time.

sarah stevenson

the beginning of alex and henry’s love story had me hooked, but the book hit a point somewhere near the middle where it started to DRAG. i had to skim over the last few chapters to finish it because it was way. too. long.

Millie Roberts

3rd time reading, still as cute as i remember

Alexa M

menna

Aishling

[Second read] still didn’t understand the political lingo but was still a great story

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Well I finished this within 19 hours and lost A LOT of sleep which should say how amazing this was. The only fault in it for me was the political lingo because I couldn’t understand any of it

This was a very good read! I love how diversified the text elements were and how gave me the same feeling as a nice, good old fanfiction!

Marie Czech

Good if you want the typical enemies to lovers arc but you don't want them to really hate each other at the beginning of the book.

Nicolas Gerant

A beautifully crafted story about two young, high-profiled guys, who are navigating the world filled with invasive media. I couldn’t put the book down and read it travelling to and from London on the coach. 

Nic Coates

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.

Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's "Red, White & Royal Blue" proves: true love isn't always diplomatic.

Sofia Nunes

“The next slide is titled: 'Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?' She apologizes for not having time to come up with better titles. Alex actively wishes for the sweet release of death.”
  

The first 100 pages of this were the sweetest thing ever (sugar-dosed haze between royal England and enemies to lovers catastrophe). Still, I don't understand American politics enough to be a favorite of mine. 

I loved the emails between them, though sometimes it felt like Alex and Henry had the same personality (which wasn't much different from all female characters with the boss-ass attitude) and England came from a fairytale. 

The bisexual representation is A+ and I can't wait for the film! A solid 8/10 from me ♡


  
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