Writers have usually turned to the royal household for inspiration, however in recent times it has been fiction, moderately than factual biographies, which have grown in reputation. And the royals are usually not solely inspiring writers in e book type. From the BBC collection, Victoria, based mostly on the e book by Daisy Goodwin in regards to the lifetime of younger Queen Victoria, to the newer phenomenon of The Crown, we seemingly can’t get sufficient of life contained in the royal palaces!
We first touched on royalty in fictional type once we wrote Meet Me in Monaco again in 2017. Then, it was the lifetime of Hollywood actress, Grace Kelly (who turned Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier), who impressed us. A number of years later, we’ve returned to royalty as soon as once more in Christmas With The Queen. This time, we needed to discover the early years of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic reign, significantly how she continued and tailored the traditions set by her father and grandfather. And what higher traditions to concentrate on than Christmas!
However moderately than focus solely on the lifetime of the queen, we puzzled what it will be prefer to work inside the tightly managed royal circles. And so we developed our characters of Olivia Carter, a BBC royal correspondent, and Jack Devereux, a chef within the royal family. We imagined how two atypical lives would possibly hook up with and revolve across the cautious precision of the royal household and their traditions.
Readers clamoring for extra fantastic royal reads, you should definitely add these books to your checklist:
Cooking and The Crown by Tom Parker Bowles
A fantastically offered and interesting cookbook, collected by Queen Camilla’s son, who’s a meals critic within the UK. The e book is impressed by the traditions and meals that has been loved by the royals for hundreds of years. Roll out the crimson carpet and invite your loved ones spherical for a meal match for a king or queen!
The Windsor Conspiracy by Georgie Blalock
An enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson by way of the lens of her cousin who’s engaged to spy on the Duchess of Windsor for her alleged Nazi sympathies and finds far more than she bargained for.
The Queen’s Devoted Companion by Eliza Knight
A extremely unique and touching premise impressed this royal learn which is narrated from the perspective of one in every of Queen Elizabeth II’s beloved corgis.
The Robe by Jennifer Robsen
Though not companion books, the next two fantastic works of fiction by Jennifer Robson make a beautiful double-read. In The Robe, Robson imagines the lives of the ladies who made Princess Elizabeth’s historic marriage ceremony robe.
Coronation 12 months by Jennifer Robson
In Coronation 12 months, one other royal-adjacent historic novel, Robson focuses on three residents of London’s historic Blue Lion resort and the way their lives converge on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.
One other Lady’s Husband by Gill Paul
In a fascinating timeslip which strikes between 1911 and the royal scandal surrounding Wallis Simpson, whose relationship with the king led to his abdication, after which in 1997, we observe the occasions surrounding the loss of life of Princess Diana.
Wallis Simpson is introduced enticingly to life on this gripping, transferring novel about two ladies thrust into the highlight, adopted by scandal, touched by loss.
The Royals Upstairs by Karina Halle
He’s the royal bodyguard. She’s the royal nanny. The annoyingly scorching attraction that simmers between them—that’s a royal ache. As plain sparks flip James and Laila’s battle royal right into a extra severe sport of hearts, nanny and bodyguard must resolve simply how a lot they’re keen to danger for a second likelihood at love.
The Secret Company by B.W. Black
It’s 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and quick on London. In the meantime Celia Nashe is transferred to MI5. However no matter she was anticipating of her mission for the conflict effort, it wasn’t this. A crumbling fortress in distant, rural Eire, taking part in nursemaid to 2 pampered younger women. However her posting quickly seems to be very removed from tame. When a useless physique turns up on the fortress gates, it can take each effort to uncover the reality, and to cease it from coming to mild.
A Voyage Round The Queen by Craig Brown
Virginia Woolf in contrast her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank saved footage of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix performed her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Dying in Venice together with her; Andy Warhol envied her fame; Donald Trump offended her; E.M. Forster confessed he would have married her, if solely she had been a boy. Combining biography, essays, cultural historical past, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, this e book is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public but personal of sovereigns.
The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wooden
Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is positioned within the Royal Library at Windsor fortress, the place the princesses reside. However when she learns that Windsor is compromised, Sophie should sacrifice all the pieces she is aware of to save lots of the longer term queen of England … Philadelphia, Current day: Wanting by way of her grandmother’s papers, Lacey Jones comes throughout a mysterious letter stamped with the Windsor Fort crest. However how did it come to be in her household’s possession?