A review by katkinney
Royal by Danielle Steel

4.0

ROYAL is the story of a fictional British royal family back during WW2 where the king and queen have three daughters. During the bombings in London, they send the youngest, Princess Charlotte, who has asthma, off to the countryside because of her health. There she falls in love with the son of the people’s she’s staying with and becomes pregnant. I enjoyed this story as a light, fluffy, don’t think too hard about it sort of beach read. I agree with other critiques that there is a lot of repeated material. Princess Charlotte, her husband, and everyone who cared about her die. The only people left alive are the baby and Lucy, a bitter girl who always resented Charlotte because she wanted Henry, Charlotte’s husband, and Henry chose her. Lucy raises the baby, Anne, as her own. The story picks up when Lucy is going to die and tells her husband the truth, and Charlotte is reunited with the royal family. The royal parts of the book were fun. I think my main criticism was that far too many characters were killed off. As soon as a character was developed and I started to get interested in them, they died. 4/5 stars.