It also makes great use of the enemies-to-lovers and boarding school book tropes. It’s fast-paced, cutesy, and entertaining in all of the best ways.

While there are some ROYALS Easter eggs in this book, you don’t have to have read the previous book to read this one. This is a huge step forward for LGBTQ+ young adult literature. However, there are very few books, especially in the YA genre, where an average girl falls in love with a princess. There are so many stories of average boys and girls falling for a prince or princess of the opposite sex.

Millie’s relationship with Princess Flora is absolutely adorable. One of her reasons for wanting to go to Scotland so badly is all of the beautiful rocks the country is known for. She is a wannabe geologist that knows everything there is to know about rocks and keeps a collection of them. One of the best parts of Millie’s character is her obsession with rocks. Millie isn’t quite as snarky as Daisy, the main character in ROYALS, but she is very unique in her own way. There are a lot of other cameos from ROYALS in this book that readers will enjoy if they read that book. Readers of ROYALS will remember Princess Flora from her few scenes in that book, but it is nice to see Rachel Hawkins fully develop Flora in this one. Millie doesn’t like her at first, but they slowly get close as the book goes on. Flora gorgeous, but she’s also obnoxious and rude. When Millie arrives in Scotland, she learns quickly that her roommate is the country’s own Princess Flora. It’s not just any boarding school, though, it’s a boarding school known for educating Scotland’s richest kids, including the children of the royal family. Millie is upset, but this is what pushes her to decide to spend her final year of high school in a boarding school in Scotland. However, just when Millie thinks the relationship might be official, she catches Jude kissing her ex-boyfriend. Millie has been in an undefined relationship with Jude, one of her best friends, since the beginning of the summer. It follows a brand new protagonist, Millie, a high school student from Texas. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS is a spin-off of Rachel Hawkins’s previous YA novel, ROYALS.

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