The reader can guess what’s coming next: Here’s the first crisis one set of young lovers will face, then conquer, then here’s the next they will face and conquer - for now. This book has one clever idea to recommend it, but the rest is as cliché as it gets: American Royals copies familiar storylines used in movies such as “The Princess Diaries” and “The Prince and Me” and trots them out in predictable fashion. They face all the concerns royals do, or at least that we commoners imagine royals have to deal with, as evidenced by popular books and movies. So now, there’s a king of America, whose oldest daughter, Beatrice, is next in line for the crown, and who also has twins named Jefferson and Samantha. Katharine McGee’s novel imagines an alternate reality in which George Washington was not voted president of the newly independent United States of America, but was installed as king of the new country instead.
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