This is another winner from Jenny Frame! I love the Royal series and get giddy every time I find out there's another book released. I love that no matter who the primary main characters are for each book, George and Bea are always a big part. In this book I really fell for both main characters, and really felt for their respective situations, especially Katya. The story was well written and dramatic with the war issues in Katya's country. Having a suprise guest from Lex and Roza was exciting too. This book and the rest of the series is a definite recommend! I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the 4th book in the Royal Romance Series. Having not read the previous book, I found I had a lot of questions. I wish I read the previous books. However, I still enjoyed the story and getting to know Katya and Clay. It's obvious Frame is a talented writer. 4.5 stars.


I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley for my honest opinion.
Thank You Bold Strokes Books and NetGalley.

𝗔 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.

This is the 4th book of the Royal Romance series and while each book can technically be read as a standalone, I recommend following the sequence. That’s because every main character in this series is part of a trusted inner circle and unless you know their story, you might feel like the outsider to this big clique.

I’m delighted that Frame did a story for Clay. Clay debuted in 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 as the newly recruited protection officer for Queen Bea and Princess Teddy. I’m excited that Clay is no longer the young and shy greenhorn of the group and that we get to find out so much more about her and what she’s like. Kat is a new character hired to be the royal nanny and is Clay’s love interest here. Unknown to Clay and almost everyone else, she is also a royal refugee from Vospya and a distant relation to Queen George.

I have a soft spot for this series and reading the books are like revisiting old friends every time. 𝘈 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 will always remain a personal favourite. That’s because Georgie is the first among monarchs and by far the most interesting character so for me, the rest will always fall a little short. This book comes in a close second because I like Clay. Clay has a natural innocence and I hated Frame a bit for creating a scenario at the start that betrays that innocence. But I just wanted her to find her happy ending which she obviously gets at the end with Kat.

I realise now that the books almost always follow the same formula but I’m never tired of the royals, so who or what’s next?

I really wish I had known that this book was part of a larger series before I began to read because everything felt very abrupt. However, even without having read any of the previous books, the story was not too difficult to follow and the characters were pretty charming. I did not particularly care for the writing style but overall, it was a solid novel.

A love story with a twist. This story is a take off from the end of the Russian royalty. The British royalty now has a Queen and her wife. The story is based around Katya and her life now and what it was. There are secrets she does not want known . She fall in love with a security guard Veronica or Clay as she wants to be called. The plot was interesting and the characters really brought out emotions. I recommend this book for romance lovers. I received this book as an ARC through NetGalley but the thoughts and opinions are my own.

Royal Family is the 4th book in the Royal Romance Series. I personally think they should be read in order. I did not read the first two and because these romances are heavy on former mains from previous books, I feel like I missed out. With that said, I thought this romance was just okay. I really had a hard time keeping up on who were the mains (Veronica and Katya) at the beginning of this romance because of the number of people involved in the dialogue. Once I got to the middle, I think I was finally able to sort out who was who. With all that said, I did like the storyline of the two mains and liked that Frame included a woman of color (Vernica). I did have some issues with how she was depicted when she went off the grid. I just found that portion of the story unnecessary. It did not add value to the story. Anyway, This was just okay for me. 3 Stars.

This arc was provided by netgalley and the publisher for an honest review.

I haven’t read the previous 3 books in this series and I feel like I missed a lot of up subtext and background info on some of the secondary characters.

I’m not well versed in the workings of royals, I do live in a constitutional monarchy, but how it all works behind the scenes? We get thought some of it in school but certainly not all of it, and it’s not something that really interests me either. All the ranks and the formalities are so confusing and a bit much for me.

Clay is the police protection officer for the young princesses. The queens have been betrayed and Clay played by the previous nanny. They have a hard time finding a new nanny, until Queen Georgina is informed about a very special nanny. Katya is a refugee from Vospya, and has an interesting background. Katya arrives when Clay is on leave to take care of her mother’s affairs, Clay is described to Kat as funny and easy going, but the woman she encounters is nothing of the sort, but she is really attractive.
There are so many storylines in this book, so many couples to focus on it is confusing and really distracting from the romance. The most interesting and important story is the one of the political situation in Vospya. It gets a lot of attention and it is important to understand Kat, and see what the future might bring. The royal documentary, a baby, and some even smaller storylines make it just a bit too much and don’t add anything to the story.

In the end this book is just a nice bit of butch-femme fluff and with the amount of gay people across the royal families you should just take this as it is. I don’t think it’s written be all to believable. But what I do find distracting is that Queen Bea and Queen George are British, but the other royals come from these made up places. The book takes place in the not so distant future, so maybe countries changed, who knows. Like I said it’s a bit of sweet fluff so just enjoy it for what it is. The major downside for this one is just all these storylines competing for attention.

I always look forward to the books in this series as I love the idea of a royal family full of gay people. It was interesting to see this book explore the idea of a previously liberal democracy turning into an authoritarian state. I liked Katya’s backstory and the storyline about Vospya. I am so glad we had a black main character. The two main characters were cute together and it was nice to see the characters from the previous books. However, there are issues with pacing - the romance develops way too quickly and the last few chapters feel very rushed. There’s also a lot of telling and not enough showing, which I was surprised by as Jenny Frame is a strong writer. The premise was very unique but unfortunately this was not my favourite book of the series. Still, I enjoyed reading it.

There are a lot of good reviews for this book and I can certainly see the appeal, but it didn't work for me all that well. Might also be because I didn't read the previous books so it was not a happy reconnecting with couple from the previous book, but more a whole lot of other names that I had to keep straight,
The romance is called slowburn by some, yet Clay immediately gets a crush of Kat the first time she sees her. I generally dislike that type of stuff. Attraction, hittting it off, sure, but crushing when you see someone for the first while you are very distrustfull of them?
Apart from that I actually did like Clay and Kat as a couple, but some other pairings rubbed me the wrong way and I would have liked the book to be more centered about them. Now the supporting characters were also main characters and it prevented me from becoming real invested in the developing romance.

Yet, if you have read Jenny Frames previous books and liked them, then this will most likely be a feast of recognition and catching up. You will probably like Royal Family just as much as you did the others.

***An ARC was provided by Netgalley in exchange for a honest review. ***

This is the fourth book in the series so there are a lot of characters and a lot of nicknames. Oddly I didn’t get too mixed up and had a good idea of who everyone was even though I hadn’t read the previous books.

Okay. This review is going to include a lot of spoilers, but if your didn’t like the series and want to know what happens you would be here right? Here we go!


One of the returning couples is George and Bea, queen and queen consort who I like but was blindsided by a very intimate scene using *ahem* a smart toy that had me feeling like I should have knocked first before entering the bedroom. The other couples are also lesbian royalty and the first half of the book is babies babies babies, domestic bliss, wholesome daily life in the middle of Royal trappings,
and waking up in a stranger’s bed after an alcohol and cocaine-fueled bender.

Record scratch

That brings us to the new couple of this book: Clay (or Veronica Clayton or Ronnie) and Kat (or Katya or Olga or Ollie). Both of them have history, not all good. Clay is grieving her mother’s recent passing and Katya is running from her past.

At about the halfway point, things start getting interesting. We have the sexual tension which lasts for a couple pages, we meet the dastardly bad guy and there is even a token hetero couple (don’t worry, they don’t flaunt their lifestyle and any male-female grappling is done offscreen). Frame is great at writing butch-femme and the butches have very masculine names so I just assumed people like Jack and Theo were butch lesbians.

Oh well, fun headcanon where males don’t exist and everyone is gay. I should mention this is set in a “near future” so things like homophobia don’t exist but dildos that have their own brain do.

Our new couple gets together and breaks up for the first time that same day (I believe it is around noon). They proceed to break up two more times with a lot of angst for a day-old relationship that is solved extremely simply after the 90% mark. The bad guy issue is also resolved super quickly, giving the end of the book a rushed feel.

Overall I enjoyed this book, Frame has a way of spinning an interesting tale, but some technical issues really bothered me. There is a lot of head-hopping and telling not showing that brought down the overall quality of this read.

I really enjoyed Frame’s novel The Duchess and the Dreamer and I feel her writing in that is much higher in technical execution and pacing than this story.

So I can only give it...

My rating: three stars

3.25 stars. I was happy to see a new release in this series, as I always seem to enjoy them. I know what I will get and I can just go with the flow. That’s what this book was for me, easy and sweet, with a good dose of royalty.

Clay is the head of the protection detail of the children of Queen George and Queen Bea (see their story in ‘A Royal Romance’) and Katya is the new nanny of the Royal children. When Katya hears the description of Clay as an easygoing and happy person she can’t believe it. Clay appears anything but happy, she seems distrustful and is plain rude. However, they appear to have more in common than they thought.

Like in the previous books George and Bea have a prominent role, but in this book also the couples from the second and third book have large roles. I always enjoy this, it’s good to see how they are doing. Because of this I think you’ll best enjoy this book if you’ve read the others, but it can be read as a stand-alone. One thing I have to mention is that by now the amount of gay people in the royal households of multiple countries is so high that you should not read this for its believability;)

There is a lot of attention on the other couples, a documentary of the royal family is being made, and there is a lot of focus on the political situation in Vospya (a dictatorship with little regard for civil rights), as Katya is a refugee from Vospya. This latter storyline is interesting and of importance for a better understanding of Katya. However, with all these additional storylines, I felt that the romance was a bit underrepresented at times. To me, the documentary storyline, as well as some other small storylines, did not really add much to the story and I wish there would have been more focus on the romance and character development.

In short, a sweet butch-femme romance in line with the other books in this series. It’s not my favorite book of the series, but I had a good time reading it.

NetGalley ARC Educator 550974

A lost princess. A stately chief of guards. Their tale, is one for the ages. Later and Clay's story is told. You will fall in love with their love. Themes of friendship, love, family and mystery exist throughout.

Ms. Frame has done it again. A welcome addition to the series. It is a standalone.

I received this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoy this series, a lot it is a princess story but not in th typical way it is also set in the future which is something you don't see a lot where the future o normal and not some out apocalyptic wasteland or everyone lives on mars.

This book was about Royal Family and not just the queens new child Ana and the older one Teddy, but how all of the guards and servants and everyone is a part of the queens family, which is ridiculous cause these people work for you and you can never truly be that close to someone you pay. But the book focuses around Clay who I had no idea was Black until this book, sp good job with representation and not making it weird, and Katya who is a nanny with a lot of secrets. I will not give away the plot because its a good one, but the overall story was great. The Loe story happened at an appropriate pace and the two lovers seemed like they fit well together. Having other issues pop up at the end of the book seemed unnecessary and jarring, but I guess they had to prove a point and make some the hero.

Things I liked were the that although this was a book that included the royal family it did not focus on them anti was nice to see some else story.

I did not like that the story and the fact that everyone in the queens inner circle is a lesbian that seems super unrealistic and kind of took me out of the story. I can understand if a few of the people you work with are gay but three leaders of major European countries their spouses, and friends are all gay seems unlikely unless the queen specifically asked to have lesbians on her staff. I also didn't like how in the last book When Holly fell for Quinn she was straight for the first half of the book and because that did not fit the narrative the author made her a lesbian for the second half of the book. It just irked me that they couldn't have one straight friend. Talk about having no diversity in the friend group. Other then that the book was a fine read. It was funny in places, and sad in others I enjoyed it very much.

This is slow burn, story between Queens police and Hidden Princess.
The growing love between those two, after what they went trough is uplifting.
You experience bit push and pull, but in the end story has happy ending.
Kat had to hide who she was, which almost cost her Clay. But I'm glad they figure their stuff together.
I can see more from their point of view.

I am not a royalist but perhaps if the monarchy was really as depicted in Jenny Frame's books I might be. An enjoyable story of a "lost" princess and a protection agent.

Jenny Frame is one of the best story writers around. I buy her books without even reading the sample because the romance, dialogue, depth of character, depth of secondary characters, and her research is phenomenal. Honestly, it is! Jenny continued on with the Royal series and I love seeing Bea and George. I fell in love with their story when it first came out, I had never heard of Jenny Frame before, and took a chance on buying one of her books. And I loved it! I have been faithful ever since! Buy this book! You won’t be sorry

Very cute but angsty, hidden identity romance novel. Fourth book in the "Royals" series. Could be stand alone, but all the other characters are in previous books. This book has lots with Bea/George (leads in 1st novel), which I really liked as they are my favorite pairing!

Protection Officer Veronica Clayton (Clay) is charged with watching over the royal children. She loves her job and the girls, but something is missing especially after her mum dies leaving her with no family. Katya Kovach also has no family as a refugee who fled her dictatorial home country after the murder of her entire family. Katya has found comfort, though, in her job as a professional nanny.

When Katya is hired by the royal family to nanny the two girls under Clay's protection, the two women begin to wonder if they may have found more than just good jobs. However, Katya is keeping a secret that may make a relationship impossible.

**I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I did not read the other books of the series, so I can only speak based on this reading.
I enjoyed that the book is set in a progressive society and one of the best parts for me is Clay trying to find out who Katya really is.
I do have to say that I find two problems with the plot. The documentary was kind of unnecessary to this plot. I thought that Katya would be unmasked through that, when what brings things up is a a mere tabloid print, and so the film doesn't really add to the story.
The other thing is a bit of a spoiler, but I need to write it. Katya heard her MI6 agent over the phone for many years and never recognized her voice as someone who she personally knew? I did not buy that.
If you like royal subjects and all, you might enjoy this book.

I truly adore the dynamic between characters and I found that this novel encapsulated such perfection. Each character, though internally flawed, were so strong and seemed so lovely to be around. It was playful yet enticing and overall allowed me to fall into a world I would love to enter once more.

I was endlessly fascinated by the plot and without spoiling, would like to note that the relationships were impeccable! I’m so excited to read more from this author and endlessly thrilled at the pacing and progression this held.

An interesting book. I can see its merits but, unfortunately I haven’t read the previous ones and even though it stands alone, I have to admit it wasn’t my cup of tea. Still, I recognize that “Royal family” is a pretty decent book and I’m sure it will succeed. The author is really gifted and certainly knows how to write. Well done!
Thank you Netgalley, publisher and author for giving me the opportunity to read the ARC in exchange of my honest review.