Maybe it's the current political climate, but this just didn't hit the way I was expecting it to. The banter was fun, the characters were cute, it was really the setting that just kept taking me out of the story. 

The British Royal family couldn't seem more American than if they were set in America. I was already rolling my eyes with every interaction they had with each other and with Alex, but when Henry's mom told the Queen to "Shut up, mom" I almost dnf'd. And then with her threatening to take the crown from her? I understand this is an AU, but come on. At least create a fake country or something if you're going to make the dynamics so completely off the wall like that. 

Also Henry is not like other royals, he thinks imperialism is bad... okay? Again, maybe just make him from a fake country so it wouldn't be so hard to suspend disbelief. 

Something about Alex being mixed race also felt very weird and his random phrases in Spanish very google translatey, just not quite as natural as it would be for someone who was actually bilingual. I don't totally understand why this choice was made, other than to highlight the Queen being racist I guess? But like, yeah. It was fine.