The story of a 50-something single mom finding love in the palace? Yes, please!
By Arianna Davis
Jasmine Guillory is officially the reigning queen of contemporary romance novels. Her 2018 debut, The Wedding Date, was an instant hit, and her follow-up later that year, The Proposal, is now a New York Times bestseller and was the official February book club pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Her third book, The Wedding Party, will be available July 16.
And this week, she announced her fourth release will be out October 1: Royal Romance, a novel inspired by Meghan Markle’s mother Doria Ragland. Yes, you read that right: There’s a romance novel happening that was influenced by the Duchess’s mom. And it all started on Twitter.
When Guillory’s friend, librarian Margaret Willison, tweeted last year “I NEED a charming romance novel about the mother of a new Duchess falling in love with an appropriately aged royal retainer while spending Christmas at Sandringham,” Guillory immediately responded: “I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!”
