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Red, White & Royal Blue

By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
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Publisher's summary

* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *

One of
AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019; an Instant New York Times bestseller; a *Must-Read Book* for Us Weekly, Vogue, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Oprahmag.com, and more!

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Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly hopeful love story...Listeners will be swept up as Alex and Henry face questions of identity and coming out amid familial duties and political machinations." — AudioFile Magazine

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.

Praise for Red, White & Royal Blue:

“Effervescent and empowering on all levels, Red, White & Royal Blue is both a well-written love story and a celebration of identity.” — NPR

"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 Love and Other Words and Roomies

"Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Maybe in Another Life

©2019 Casey McQuiston (P)2019 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

AudioFile Magazine Editors' Pick

"Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly hopeful love story." -AudioFile Magazine

"I tore through Red, White & Royal Blue as if it were a pint of Ben & Jerry's. By turns hilarious and angst-ridden, buoyant and strikingly real, this novel is a surefire bull’s-eye for any devotee of classic romance, slow burn fanfiction, or heartfelt storytelling. A political love story too timely and too genuine to miss." - Lyndsay Faye, internationally bestselling author of Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham

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How dare this auther make me feel my own feels!!!

It's too good. This should be illegal. My life is now an empty husk of book hole now that I finished it. I'm not going to tell you anything about it as I dare not ruin its majesty with my shitty recap. Just know that every moment you spend not buying this book is a moment you have WASTED.

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The 2016 election AU you didn't know you needed

If you speak sarcasm fluently and wish the 2016 election had a different ending then I highly recommend this book. Sweet, funny, and a great fluffy read.

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wholsome

This is just the sweetest love story, with significant politics wedged in. Being from Texas it hit particularly home.

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The way it was spoken brought it to life

I love when people give the characters accents and bring out the emotions they feel as it gives such an already amazing story another amazing element. 10/10 is the best story I’ve heard all year.

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Tasteful and beautifully presented

I was invested. The characters, human. It was honest and unapologetic with a wit that tugs at the heartstrings. I loved the development of each character. Not a screaming activist. It is so hard to stand by the community when the screaming and the tasteless protests overshadow the human experience. This book. This story. This life is not something that is easily told. It affects the rich and poor the same way. I will read this again to turn my hopelessness to hopeful grit. To push forward. Thank you so much for this story.

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Beautifully told and witty

I enjoyed listening to all fifteen chapters! I always read the book before watching the movie, but in this case I did it backwards not knowing there was a book. LOVED the movie and it stayed closely to the book so it was a win win situation.

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LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.

Love the movie. Love the book. Love the audio book. The narrator is amazing!!! It was my first audio book and I'm officially obsessed now 😍

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Lovable characters

This book is my new favorite thing I’ve read it through already then watched the movie but still needed more of these two and so I bought the audio booking thinking I would be able to listen to it in a new perspective but I still find myself listening to it over and over any time I need a pick me up this story is just so heartwarming and the characters are so lovable

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No Words

I have no words to explain how much I enjoyed this book. I saw the movie first and thought it would be a bad different, but it was such a good different, the extra details made the story come alive in a way that, I have no way to explain just how much I enjoyed this book.

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WAYYY better than the movie!

I watched the movie and absolutely loved it! Someone told me the book was even better. So I decided to listen to it. Hands down without a doubt, the book out ranks the movie. Both are great! But the book just became my favorite book.

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