![]() The book leverages an old romantic comedy trope: the fake relationship that becomes true love. Set in a world in which a female Democrat from Texas wins the presidency in 2016, Red, White & Royal Blue chronicles the illicit romance between the president’s son, Georgetown senior Alex Claremont-Diaz (Dad is a Mexican-American senator), and Prince Henry of Wales, his childhood nemesis. The result is Red, White & Royal Blue, a romantic comic novel about political figures that became an unlikely New York Times bestseller. After a trip to Norway, away from news back home, she picked it up again and finished a first draft about six months later. The Louisiana native, now 28, says she had to quickly “grapple with a world that was different than we thought it was.” So she set her book aside for eight months. ![]() In the spring of 2016, writer Casey McQuiston, then 25 years old, was driving on the I-10 highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when an idea for a novel came to her. ![]()
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