A big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in love with Prince Henry of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends...
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.
The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him.

As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. And Henry throws everything into question for Alex, an impulsive, charming guy who thought he knew everything: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?

Alex Claremont-Diaz is the first son of the united states and he’s absolutely adorable. If I wasn’t shipping him so hard with Henry I’d probably be in love himself. Ambitious 21-year-old invested in politics and determined to follow his parents’ footsteps and make it big in one of his mother’s campaigns. Alex is genuine and brilliant, a boy who shares a special bond with his entire family – but has no real friends outside it. His problems start and sexuality dilemmas start when he starts falling for Henry, and the way he deals with it is absolutely hilarious and adorable. This book has amazing humor and I’ve laughed my ass off probably a hundred times.

Henry is a prince of Wales and second in line for the throne of England. He is probably the most precious thing that ever existed and I can’t get over what an adorable cinnamon roll he is. He is constantly restrained by the boundaries royal life puts around him and can do nothing to escape them. He wants to be happy and deserves it so much, but traumas from his past and closeting are keeping that happiness away from him. The story of his depression and getting over his father’s loss was so beautiful and painful, and I was so so glad he found his love in the end.

This adorable romance comedy novel was an amazing representation of the modern version of forbidden love, or to say it better, love restricted by society’s boundaries. It’s hard enough coming out to your loved ones and the rest of the world, and that being a potential cause of disrupting your mother’s campaign or ruining crown’s reputation certainly doesn’t help. Alex and Henry loved together, fought together and thrived together, by sharing their story and telling the truth to the rest of the world, and to me, there is no better message this book could give.

The only tiny problem I had with this book was that it was pretty long and not dynamic at all. The pacing was all kinds of wrong and that made it hard to get invested in the plot in some parts. For example, their relationship developed too sudden and then came to an abrupt stop where it was pretty much all politics until the very end, which isn’t bad, but there was just a dose of tension missing.