Deborah Ross

Modest fun: Red, White & Royal Blue reviewed

This LGBT rom-com is like being hit round the head with a photo-love story from Jackie magazine

Taylor Zakhar Perez (Alex Claremont-Diaz) and Nicholas Galitzine (Prince Henry) in Red, White & Royal Blue. Credit: Jonathan Prime 
issue 12 August 2023

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Red, White & Royal Blue is a rom-com based on the LGBT bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston. Nope, me neither, but the New York Times reviewed it as ‘a brilliant, wonderful book’ and on Amazon UK it has garnered nearly 44,000 reviews, with an average of 4.5 stars, so let’s not be hasty.

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