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The Royal We Hardcover – April 7, 2015

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  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (April 7, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1455557102
  • ISBN-13: 978-1455557103
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (588 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By schmettajames VINE VOICE on March 10, 2015
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The Royal We is the perfect book for people who are interested in the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but find William and Kate maybe just a little dull. It's written by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, the team behind Go Fug Yourself, the popular celebrity fashion blog. Their site covers Kate and other royals quite a bit, so their interest in the subject is well known.

The Royal We reimagines the love story of William and Kate as that of Prince Nicholas of Wales and an American named Bex (short for Rebecca) Porter. Their story parallels that of William and Kate, but with loads more drama and angst added in. Bex leaves Cornell to spend a year at Oxford, where she ends up living on Prince Nicholas' hall. She doesn't realize who he is when she first meets him, and she's soon accepted into his inner circle when the prince and his friends realize that she's not desperate for a piece of Nick (unlike most of the student population of Oxford). It's not a romance at first, and Bex is busy hooking up with Nick's friend. But the pair end up bonding over a shared love of terrible TV, and she introduces him to the awesomely ludicrous Devour, a supernatural soap opera that surely bears some resemblance to the late lamented soap Passions (which is occasionally referenced on Go Fug Yourself, so I assume the authors are fans). It's not much of a spoiler to tell you that Nick and Bex fall in love.

Once Nick and Bex leave Oxford, the drama really kicks into high gear and they have to deal with her attention-grubbing twin sister Lacey, his lovable scamp of a brother Prince Har... Freddie, trying to keep the relationship a secret to avoid press attention, and Nick's seriously messed up family.
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The Royal We might not be the Prince William/Kate Middleton fan fiction we wanted, but it’s the Prince William/Kate Middleton fan fiction we got. Let’s be honest. William and Kate aren’t the most exciting couple in the world. They’re very attractive, they’re very well-mannered and composed, they’re probably wonderful parents, and while that’s great for real life, it doesn’t make for a juicy novel. This lack of juiciness is especially surprising since this book was written by the bloggers from Go Fug Yourself.

William and Kate are played here by Nick and Bex. Instead of being an upper-middle class British girl, Bex is an upper-middle class American girl. Oh, the horror! Bex goes to Oxford as an exchange student, and Prince Nicholas is the first fellow student she meets. He greets her, he shows her around, and get this – Bex HAS NO IDEA WHO HE IS. Now, come on. Is there any American college girl, even one who only has a passing knowledge of the British monarchy, who would take the time to investigate the Oxford student exchange program, move to England, but then have no clue that the heir to the throne was one of her classmates?

Let’s get back to Kate Middleton for a minute. One of the things the gossip-loving, Daily Mail-reading part of me loves is that she and her grasping family supposedly conspired for years to get her claws into William and to raise their own social status by association. Who cares if it’s true or not, because it would make for a delicious novel. But none of this royal stuff even phases Bex, and this makes her attraction for Nick baffling, because his main characteristic is his constant moping. He complains about his duties and responsibilities and his family. He doesn’t trust anyone. He can’t have fun, because it might get into the tabloids.
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Page for page, this was the most delightful reading experience I've had in a year. It's the story of Bex, a tomboy and aspiring artist, a girl from the Midwest whose father invented the "Coucherator," who heads off for a semester at Oxford and falls in love with Nicholas of Wales, the future King of England. This is clearly inspired by Will and Kate, but it doesn't read like a pale knock off, or a veiled bit of fan fiction. It's a true, delightful, three dimensional work of fiction all on its own. Some of the characters - like Nicholas, the future King with a good heart and a heavy load to bear, and Freddie, his redheaded insanely charming troublemaking brother - are clearly their "real life" counterparts, but created with more humanity, warmth and wit than the "real" people have ever shown. Other characters, like Bex herself, are true inventions - Bex is not a stand in for Kate, really, but her own person, with her own flaws and her own point of view. (Bex's twin sister Lacey is Pippa re-imagined, and yes, there is a dalliance between Lacey and Freddie.) This book can be enjoyed on two totally different levels. If you enjoy the Royal Family, even casually, then you'll have fun seeing how the authors have imagined their inner lives. Many of the signposts of the "real" Will and Kate are here: the college meeting in the shared circle of friends, the secret dating, the big public breakup, the reunion - and it's fun to see them played out on the page here.

But - and this is important - this book stands on its own, completely, apart from anything having to do with the "real" Royals. At its heart, it is a fantastic, soap opera-y, funny, emotionally insightful, poignant read.
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