Meanwhile, Lennox is impressed at the change in Roza and cautiously begins to court her. Sent home for turning up late and hung over mortifies Roza, but she perseveres, and soon becomes an enthusiastic, if sometimes misguided, charity worker. The charity’s new director, Lennox King, is not one to put up with spoiled rich girl histrionics, as she quite capably proves on Roza’s first day. George has always been fond of Roza, and so she and Bea hatch a plan to teach the princess to embrace responsibility by finding her a job at the charity where Bea used to work. Having been unceremoniously dumped by said girlfriend, Roza is angry and dismayed when she is ordered to leave the country and spend some time visiting quietly with her cousin Queen Georgina and the new Queen Consort Beatrice. No stranger to making headlines, Roza finally exhausts her father’s patience, when her latest – and much older – girlfriend, turns out to be an international drugs and arms dealer. Roza has rebelled against her father’s strict rules all her life and is convinced that she is unwanted by her entire family, ever since her mother died shortly after giving birth to her. Not so the Royal Family of the small state of Denbourg (which I’m assuming is supposed to be somewhere in Northern Europe), and especially not the second in line to the throne, Princess Rozala. Generally, however, the plots and characters are very familiar to even the most casual of royal watchers, right down to the idea that the Royal Family (Buckinghams, not Windsors) were beset by scandals and divorces in the late twentieth century, but have been enjoying much less turbulent relationships in the twenty-first century.

Although the novels are set almost thirty years into our future (presumably to avoid too many comparisons with the current British Royal Family), they pretty much read as contemporary stories, with only a few pieces of extra technology, most notably in the field of medicine, thereby enabling our heroines to more easily have babies together, as well as some offshoots from medical applications perking up the sex toys industry. I only got around to reading the first book in this series very recently, right in time for this, the second book, to come up for review.

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that while I’m not a great fan of mainstream category romance’s ‘royal’ titles, I have quite a lot of affection for their lesbian romance counterparts.

Stevie‘s review of Royal Rebel (A Royal Romance, Book 2) by Jenny FrameĬontemporary Lesbian Romance published by Bold Strokes Books 16 May 17

A Royal Romance by Jenny Frame