About the Book
Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca “Bex” Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this “positively delicious” follow-up to The Royal We that’s “just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first” (Taylor Jenkins Reid).
After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca “Bex” Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world’s judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance.
But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they’d placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick’s brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.
My Review
The Heir Affair is the sequel to The Royal We, which I would recommend reading before this if you haven’t. I’ve been a fan of the Royal Family for as long as I can remember, so when The Royal We first came across my desk, I knew I had to read it and same goes for the sequel. I was of course curious what married life looks like for Bex and Prince Nicholas, especially after their wedding day goes completely off script and a lot of family – and strangers that read about the royal lives online – are upset and confused.
There is a lot packed into this book, but it read quickly and kept me engaged the entire time. While I did enjoy The Royal We just a touch more, I still had fun reading about the fictional royal family and how the Queen tried to keep her family pulled together, how the brothers dealt with public humiliation that turned them against one another, and what happens after a regular girl becomes a princess. There is scandal, love, betrayal, and even some emotional family moments in this one, and if you love reading about royalty with a side of gossip, this is a good one for you.
4 stars
