Let them eat cake: 20 fascinating facts about ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
Red, White & Royal Blue. This fun romantic comedy—directed by Matthew López and based on the best-selling novel by Casey McQuiston—tells the story of Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar-Perez), the son of US President Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman), who falls head over heels into a cake with Prince Henry of Wales (Nicholas Galitzine).
While the two initially hate each other and are stuck in a hamfisted PR campaign to prove they are buds, they actually start to fall in love!
It’s a pretty classic rom-com set-up, to be honest, but the queer angle made it feel fresh and new. And, sure, enough Red, White & Royal Blue became one of the most talked about films of 2023 (at least in our very gay circles).We’ve compiled 20 fabulous facts about Red, White & Royal Blue—just be careful of the cake.View Full PostIt spent more than 20 weeks on the list, and, according to NYT, was a “BookTok sensation.”View Full PostThe author told The Nerd Daily: “RWRB started while I was following the 2016 presidential election and reading A Woman In Charge by Carl Bernstein and The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan at the same time.
I was inspired to do something inside both of those high profile yet super secret worlds, and when I had the idea that I could make a member of the first family fall in love with a member of the royal family and explore both, I instantly knew this was a book I could do.”View Full Post“I knew from jump that the Prince Charming archetype was something I wanted to play with and subvert, and so that informed what the first kid in my book would be like,” McQuiston told The Nerd Daily.View Full PostMcQuiston appears briefly as President Claremont’s speechwriter.
