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* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. While he still tries to force Henry to remain in the closet even after the email leak, it's out of genuine concern for him and the potential public backlash he could face for officially coming out, and ultimately he does little to protest Henry's final decision outside of making sure if this is truly what his grandson wants. Compare this to his book counterpart Queen Mary, who is an ice-cold, homophobic, ControlFreak who blatantly cares more about maintaining a traditional royal image and keeping the status quo than her own family.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite seeming childish and reckless, deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.

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* HiddenDepths: Despite seeming childish seemingly immature and reckless, deep down he deeply cares for his family and has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite he seems childish and reckless, but deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.

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* HiddenDepths: Despite he seems seeming childish and reckless, but deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.
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* AdaptationNameChange: To go along with her RaceLift she is named Amy Gupta in the movie version.
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* HiddenDepth: Despite he seems childish and reckless, but deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.

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* HiddenDepth: HiddenDepths: Despite he seems childish and reckless, but deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.

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* MrFanservice: In the movie, before Zahra enters his bedroom and found out about him and Henry, he's caught fully naked, much to Zahra's embarrassment.

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* HiddenDepth: Despite he seems childish and reckless, but deep down he has a genuine wish to do something to make the world a better place.
* MrFanservice: In the movie, before as Zahra enters his bedroom hotel room and found out about him and Henry, he's caught fully naked, much to Zahra's embarrassment.

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* AloofBigBrother: He seems to be distant toward both of his younger siblings. In the book it's clarified that he used to be a warmer person, but after their father died, he started taking his duties as the "man of the family" more seriously which caused his relationships with both Henry and Bea to break down.



* AloofBigBrother: He seems to be distant toward his younger brother, Henry.


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* PlatonicLifePartners: Especially in the movie. She and Alex are BFFs that Alex often confides in her about almost everything, including his embarrassing history. Alex even invites her into his bedroom when confiding about his worries over Henry's sudden withdrawal.

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* PlatonicLifePartners: Especially in the movie. She and Alex are BFFs best friends that Alex often confides in her about almost everything, including his embarrassing history. Alex even invites her into his bedroom when confiding about his worries over Henry's sudden withdrawal.
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* MrFanservice: In the movie, before Zahra enters his bedroom and found out about him and Henry, he's caught fully naked, much to Zahra's embarassment.

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* MrFanservice: In the movie, before Zahra enters his bedroom and found out about him and Henry, he's caught fully naked, much to Zahra's embarassment.embarrassment.



* PlatoniclLifePartners: Especially in the show. She and Alex are BFFs that Alex invites her into his bedroom to confide when Alex worries about Henry's sudden withdrawal.

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* PlatoniclLifePartners: PlatonicLifePartners: Especially in the show. movie. She and Alex are BFFs that Alex often confides in her about almost everything, including his embarrassing history. Alex even invites her into his bedroom to confide when Alex confiding about his worries about over Henry's sudden withdrawal.
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* MrFanservice: In the movie, before Zahra enters his bedroom and found out about him and Henry, he's caught fully naked, much to Zahra's embarassment.


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* PlatoniclLifePartners: Especially in the show. She and Alex are BFFs that Alex invites her into his bedroom to confide when Alex worries about Henry's sudden withdrawal.


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* AloofBigBrother: He seems to be distant toward his younger brother, Henry.

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* {{Tsundere}}: To Henry. Declares his undying hatred for him but obsessively seeks him out whenever they're in the same vicinity of each other and engages in near-stalkerish behavior such as hate-reading Henry's Wikipedia page. What is really going on is that he has a massive crush on Henry and doesn't know how to deal with it until they're basically forced to make nice with each other and become friends.


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* IJustWantToBeNormal: He clearly hates being a prince. [[spoiler:In the Collector's Edition's bonus chapter (which is from his POV), it's revealed he eventually [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicates his title]] in his late twenties and moves to Austin with Alex permanently after their marriage]].



* {{Polyamory}}: It's implied he had a threesome with June and Nora in the book.






* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:He primarily prefers women as his choice of prey, but he's not opposed to the occasional pretty boy, as Rafael Luna can attest to]].






The current British monarch and grandfather of Phillip, Henry and Beatrice.

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The current British monarch and grandfather of Phillip, Henry Henry, and Beatrice.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Well he's not evil perse but he is an antagonist surely and even he is annoyed by Phillip's UpperClassTwit persona.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Well he's not evil perse per se but he is an antagonist surely and even he is annoyed by Phillip's UpperClassTwit persona.


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* PetTheDog: For what little it's worth, he does acknowledge that Henry and Alex's love for each other is the genuine article instead of some "mad infatuation", as Phillip tried to call it. Doesn't stop him from trying to convince them to break up, though.

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[[folder:Jeffrey Richards]]
President Claremont's republican rival for her reelection campaign.

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[[folder:Jeffrey Richards]]
President Claremont's republican rival for her reelection campaign.
An openly gay Independent Senator and an old friend of Alex Claremont-Diaz.



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: It's revealed that he has a long history of sexual assault, primarily of the women in his employ but Rafael reveals he tried it on him as well.]]

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: HeroicSacrifice: It turns it out that the reason he joined Richards' campaign [[spoiler: It's was to bring it down from the inside. He does partially succeed but the cost is the plausible downfall of his political career.]]
* RegretfulTraitor: Despite being lifelong friends and allies with the Claremont-Diaz family he becomes the nominal running mate to their chief rival Jeffrey Richards with little to no explanation. Later it's
revealed that he has a long history of sexual assault, primarily of did so [[spoiler: to bring Richards down and is deeply remorseful for hurting Alex and his family in the women in his employ but Rafael reveals he tried it on him as well.process.]]




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[[folder:Jeffrey Richards]]
President Claremont's republican rival for her reelection campaign.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Well a heart of ''bronze'' maybe but while he's a HeteronormativeCrusader he also clearly cares for Henry and a lot of his insistence at presenting a "traditional Royal image" is born out of worry for Henry as when he softly asks if Henry is sure before Henry outs himself but then letting him do it without much fuss, when he could have easily forced him not to.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Inserted in place of the Queen from the novel to further distance the fictionalized Royal family from the real one (the same reason their family name was changed for the movie) but ironically since Queen Elizabeth's death occurred between filming and release the actually brought them closer to the real Royal Family as it coincided with the coronation of King Charles.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Well a heart of ''bronze'' maybe but but, while he's a HeteronormativeCrusader HeteronormativeCrusader, he also clearly cares for Henry and a lot of his insistence at presenting a "traditional Royal image" is born out of worry for Henry Henry; as when he softly asks if Henry is sure before Henry outs himself but then ultimately letting him do it without much fuss, when he could have easily forced him not to.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Inserted in place of the Queen from the novel to further distance the fictionalized Royal family from the real one (the same reason their family name was changed for the movie) but ironically movie). Ironically since Queen Elizabeth's death occurred between filming and release the release, this actually brought them closer to the real Royal Family as it coincided with the coronation of King Charles.

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%%[[/folder]]The current British monarch and grandfather of Phillip, Henry and Beatrice.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Well he's not evil perse but he is an antagonist surely and even he is annoyed by Phillip's UpperClassTwit persona.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Well a heart of ''bronze'' maybe but while he's a HeteronormativeCrusader he also clearly cares for Henry and a lot of his insistence at presenting a "traditional Royal image" is born out of worry for Henry as when he softly asks if Henry is sure before Henry outs himself but then letting him do it without much fuss, when he could have easily forced him not to.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Inserted in place of the Queen from the novel to further distance the fictionalized Royal family from the real one (the same reason their family name was changed for the movie) but ironically since Queen Elizabeth's death occurred between filming and release the actually brought them closer to the real Royal Family as it coincided with the coronation of King Charles.
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* SpareToTheThrone: As the third-born of his siblings, he's fifth-in-line for the throne after his older sister Beatrice, older brother Philip and his mother Princess Catherine.

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* SpareToTheThrone: As the third-born of his siblings, he's fifth-in-line fourth in line for the throne after his older sister Beatrice, older brother Philip and his mother Princess Catherine.
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* FoolishSiblingIrresponsibleSibling: The foolish to June's responsible. Alex is arguably the more ambitious and driven of the two of them, but he's highly opinionated and reckless, with his relationship with Henry being the most obvious example. June, meanwhile, lives at the White House specifically just to keep an eye on him and act as his support, and is generally the more sensible of them both.

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* FoolishSiblingIrresponsibleSibling: FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to June's responsible. Alex is arguably the more ambitious and driven of the two of them, but he's highly opinionated and reckless, with his relationship with Henry being the most obvious example. June, meanwhile, lives at the White House specifically just to keep an eye on him and act as his support, and is generally the more sensible of them both.
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* SpareToTheThrone: As the second-born prince, he's second-in-line for the throne after his older brother Philip.

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* SpareToTheThrone: As the second-born prince, third-born of his siblings, he's second-in-line fifth-in-line for the throne after his older sister Beatrice, older brother Philip. Philip and his mother Princess Catherine.

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A young philanthropist and Henry's best friend.
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* ShipTease: Has a very overt crush on June and barely tries to hide it, while it's never confirmed if they officially start dating, she seems receptive to his advances at the very least.
** In the movie version this ShipTease is transferred to Nora.
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* FoolishSiblingIrresponsibleSibling: The foolish to June's responsible. Alex is arguably the more ambitious and driven of the two of them, but he's highly opinionated and reckless, with his relationship with Henry being the most obvious example. June, meanwhile, lives at the White House specifically just to keep an eye on him and act as his support, and is generally the more sensible of them both.



* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:He's actually had feelings for Alex since the first time they met back at the Rio Olympics in 2016. That's the real reason why he tried to get away from him so soon after their first meeting; he couldn't handle being around Alex and the feeling he invoked so soon after the death of his father]].

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* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:He's actually had feelings for Alex since the first time they met back at the Rio Olympics in 2016. That's the real reason why he tried to get away from him so soon after their first meeting; he couldn't handle being around Alex and the feeling feelings he invoked so soon after the death of his father]].

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* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Alex's Red. He's introverted, slightly repressed, tries to constantly reign in his emotions, insecure and very fearful of public opinion.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Affects a cold and reserved persona on purpose as he is self-aware of his sensetive, overly emotional nature and that dangers that entails.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:He's actually had feelings for Alex since the first time they met back at the Rio Olympics in 2016. That's the real reason why he tried to get away from him so soon after their first meeting; he couldn't handle being around Alex and the feeling he invoked so soon after the death of his father]].
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Alex's Red. He's introverted, slightly repressed, tries to constantly reign in his emotions, insecure insecure, and very fearful of public opinion.
* SpareToTheThrone: As the second-born prince, he's second-in-line for the throne after his older brother Philip.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Affects a cold and reserved persona on purpose as he is self-aware of his sensetive, sensitive, overly emotional nature and that the dangers that entails.entail.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Henry, at first. To the point that he used to do things like "hate-read" Henry's Wikipedia page.



* ObliviousToLove: He's very obtuse when it comes to romantic matters. In addition to missing Henry's attraction to him, it took him years to figure out he was bisexual even after he spent a good portion of high school watching porn and fooling around with his very male best friend Liam. To say nothing of how he obsessed over June's J-14 magazine picture of Henry for several years, before he even got the chance to meet Henry himself.

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* ObliviousToLove: He's very obtuse when it comes to romantic matters. In addition to missing Henry's attraction to him, him (and his own attraction to Henry), it took him years to figure out he was bisexual even after he spent a good portion of high school watching porn and fooling around with his very male best friend Liam. To say nothing of how he obsessed over June's J-14 magazine picture of Henry for several years, before he even got the chance to meet Henry himself.

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%%[[folder:Jeffrey Richards]][[folder:Jeffrey Richards]]
President Claremont's republican rival for her reelection campaign.
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%%[[folder:Princess [[folder:Princess Catherine Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor]]Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor]]
The mother of Phillip, Beatrice and Henry and second in line to the British Throne.
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* BrokenBird: "Checked out" of life after her husband's death but towards the end of the novel she acknowledges this and tries to be there for Henry in his crisis.
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Older brother of Henry and Beatrice and third in line to the British Throne.
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* UpperClassTwit: Portrayed this way in direct comparison to his younger siblings. He's pompous, vacuous and condescending as well as blithely enjoying the Royal lifestyle that his siblings are tortured by.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Henry's Blue. He's extroverted, confident, irreverent and much more easygoing.



* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Alex's Red. He's introverted, slightly repressed, tries to constantly reign in his emotions, insecure and very fearful of public opinion.



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[[folder:June Claremont-Diaz]]
Alex's older sister.

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[[folder:June Claremont-Diaz]]
Alex's older sister.
The granddaughter of the Vice President and the Claremont-Diaz sibling's oldest friend.



* AdaptedOut: Does not exist in the movie and parts of her story are given to Nora's character instead.

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* AdaptedOut: Does not exist in the movie AmicableExes: Used to date Alex but it was never serious and parts they're now very good friends and she becomes something of her story are given to Nora's character instead.a ShipperOnDeck for him and Henry.



[[folder:Princess Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor]]
Prince Henry's older sister.

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Prince Henry's
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* AgeLift: The middle Royal sibling in the book, the youngest in the movie.

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Prince Henry's older sister.
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* AdaptationDeviation: In the books he's shorter than Henry by a significant amount. In the movie he's taller than Henry by at least an inch.

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* AdaptationDeviation: In the books he's shorter than Henry by a significant amount. In the movie he's taller than Henry by at least an inch. This is waived away in the movie with a line from Henry implying that Alex is wearing lifts due to his HeightAngst.

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The only son of the first female President

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The only son of the first female PresidentPresident, Ellen Claremont, and her ex-husband, Senator Oscar Diaz, and the younger brother of June Claremont-Diaz.



* AdaptationDeviation: In the books he's shorter than Henry by a significant amount. In the movie he's taller than Henry by at least an inch.



* ObliviousToLove: He's very obtuse when it comes to romantic matters. In addition to missing Henry's attraction to him, it took him years to figure out he was bisexual even after he spent a good portion of high school watching porn and fooling around with his very male best friend Liam. To say nothing of how he obsessed over June's J-14 magazine picture of Henry for several years, before he even got the chance to meet Henry himself.









* AdaptedOut: Nonexistant in the movie and parts of her story are given to Nora's character instead.

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[[folder:Amy Chen]]
Alex's primary Secret Service detail.

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[[folder:Amy Chen]]
Alex's primary Secret Service detail.
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Alex and June's Stepfather.



* RaceLift: Chinese-American in the novel and played by an actress of Indian descent in the movie.

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* RaceLift: Chinese-American in AdaptedOut: In the novel movie's continuity Ellen and played by an actress of Indian descent in the movie.Oscar never divorced and thus Leo is nowhere to be seen.



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Another Secret Service agent Alex is close with.

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[[folder:Alex Claremont-Diaz]]
The only son of the first female President
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* HeightAngst: Is at first very fixated on whether or not Henry is truly 6'2".
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[[folder:Prince Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor]]
The spare to the throne to the United Kingdom.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Affects a cold and reserved persona on purpose as he is self-aware of his sensetive, overly emotional nature and that dangers that entails.
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[[folder:June Claremont-Diaz]]
Alex's older sister.
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[[folder:Princess Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor]]
Prince Henry's older sister.
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Alex's primary Secret Service detail.
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Another Secret Service agent Alex is close with.
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!The Royal Family
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