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The Royal We was simply good escapist fun, so when I noticed there was a new sequel, I couldn’t resist a little more time visiting the world of royal couple heir to the throne of England Prince Nicholas and American Rebecca Porter. Nick and Bex are clearly patterned after Prince William and Kate Middleton, although the first book was published even before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle started dating, so it coincidentally mixes in a bit of that dynamic.
At the end of the first book, the two had just had a secret simple wedding for themselves the day before the official wedding at Westminster, mainly because a former journalist friend was about to break a juicy story about Nick’s younger brother, Freddie, having made a move on Bex.
The real wedding day does turn into a nightmare when the news breaks, and Nick and Bex decide to get out of London and don disguises for a quiet couple of months in Scotland. But an emergency brings them back, even as they know they have to return to “real life” eventually anyway, and they face the music about all of it with the queen, Eleanor, and Nick’s father, the Prince of Wales, Richard. But as difficult as that is, facing Freddie and trying to somehow reclaim the strong bond of brotherhood Freddie has with Nick and even the close friendship Bex has with her brother-in-law will prove to be the toughest challenge. Add to that all the adjustments Bex has to make to royal life now that she’s officially the Duchess of Clarence, discovering secrets about the queen’s late sister, whose home they move into, and being pressured to produce a royal heir, and this book has plenty of good stuff to dig into.
Rated: High. It’s all for profanity: 23 uses of strong language, roughly 50 instances of moderate and mild language. Sexual content is minimal; the married main characters have relations frequently but there are no details, and there is talk about it. There are a few references to some illicit affairs.
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