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Top 5 books with royalty in the title

Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with royalty in the title!!

Friends, readers, bloggers, lend me your eyes. Ok, so not an actual royalty quote, but I think Shakespeare should have been knighted at the very least. And Julius Caesar wasn’t quite royalty, but dictator is up there. I think I’d prefer a benevolent dictator over a tyrannical one. But you know, democracy is pretty good sometimes too. Except for when you disagree with the voting majority, I guess.

This week’s post is a freebie, and I am continuing on with the theme of things in book titles. The thing this week: Royalty. And because I like to make it extra for myself, once again, I tried very hard not to double up on titles. Royal titles, that is.

And finally, a fun fact before you all run off to see my top 5: While looking for a “princess” book, it turns out that I’ve read 5 books with princess in the title, plus the one I ended up going with below (which is an alternative). Of those 6, 3 of them are sapphic romances. Looks like girls do it better!!


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Let’s go see my top 5 books with royalty in the title.

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top 5 books with royalty in the title

King of Scars β€” Leigh Bardugo

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Face your demons… or feed them.

The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war β€” and he intends to keep it that way.

Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself.

But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried β€” and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.

The Caged Queen β€” Kristin Ciccarelli

Once there were two sisters born with a bond so strong that it forged them together forever. Roa and Essie called it the hum. It was a magic they cherished β€” until the day a terrible accident took Essie’s life and trapped her soul in this world.

Dax β€” the heir to Firgaard’s throne β€” was responsible for the accident. Roa swore to hate him forever. But eight years later he returned, begging for her help. He was determined to dethrone his cruel father, under whose oppressive reign Roa’s people had suffered.

Roa made him a deal: she’d give him the army he needed if he made her queen. Only as queen could she save her people from Firgaard’s rule.

Then a chance arises to right every wrong β€” an opportunity for Roa to rid herself of this enemy king and rescue her beloved sister. During the Relinquishing, when the spirits of the dead are said to return, Roa discovers she can reclaim her sister for good.

All she has to do is kill the king.

The Caged Queen by Kristin Ciccarelli

Captive Prince β€” C.S. Pacat

Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else…

Her Royal Highness β€” Rachel Hawkins

Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. And because Millie cannot stand the thought of confronting her ex every day, she decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools… the farther from Houston the better.

Millie can’t believe her luck when she’s accepted into one of the world’s most exclusive schools, located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. Everything about Scotland is different: the country is misty and green; the school is gorgeous, and the students think Americans are cute.

The only problem: Mille’s roommate Flora is a total princess.

She’s also an actual princess. Of Scotland.

At first, the girls can barely stand each other β€” Flora is both high-class and high-key β€” but before Millie knows it, she has another sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend. Even though Princess Flora could be a new chapter in her love life, Millie knows the chances of happily ever afters are slim… after all, real life isn’t a fairy tale… or is it?

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven β€” Juno Dawson

Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls β€” Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle β€” took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department.

Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC.

Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora.

And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

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until next time, happy reading! Meeghan xo

Hi!! I'm Meeghan 😊 I like books (surprise). I also like games (board, video and D&D), baking (mostly cakes) and travel. I live in Canberra, Australia with Husband and 3 black rescue kitties.

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