Yet what they’ve created is perhaps as close to seeing inside a relationship with a royal as we’ll ever get. Andrews University in Scotland, the authors have created their own world, rather than just change a few names and dates. While The Royal We is a riff on William and Kate’s romance at St. “We like to say, ‘We don’t hate your soul, we hate your pants,’ ” Heather Cocks says in an interview with Maclean’s. One expects nothing less from a pair who create sarcastic, snarky, but never cruel posts. There may be the obligatory happy ending, but little else is the earnest fare that usually passes as royal romantic fiction. It’s a deeply funny, remarkably perceptive take on life behind gilded gates, as well as the sacrifices and compromises demanded of anyone who falls for a good looking royal. the Fug Girls behind the witty celebrity blog Go Fug Yourself, have written a delicious romp of a royal romance, The Royal We. Nick and Bex lived happily…what, did you think this was about Prince William and Kate Middleton? Pish posh. For their marriage in Westminster Abbey, he wore the dress uniform of the Irish Guards, while she wore a white Alexander McQueen. After the ups and downs of a long courtship, he eventually proposed, giving her the famous ring his mother had once worn. Once upon a time a handsome prince went to university and fell in love with a beautiful commoner. It will in no way spoil a reader’s enjoyment of the novel. Like royalty, romances are governed by ancient, unchanging rules (Girl meets boy, their relationship is beset by crisis before true love prevails, etc.) So be warned: I discuss-in a very general fashion-the ending of this romance. Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton exchange rings in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey, London, Friday April 29, 2011.

The royal we by heather cocks