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Jennifer Ryan and Melanie Benjamin "Royals Are Just Like Us...Only They're Not"
52 minutes Posted Jun 1, 2026 at 7:42 pm.
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Who doesn’t love a good story about the Royal Family (even if it’s your secret, guilty pleasure)? Join these two bestselling historical fiction authors as they talk about their recent novels, both about the Royals, but from different points of view and at different times in history. Listen to them discuss historical parallels to modern-day Royals, how you have to approach writing historical fiction, and whether to focus on real vs. imagined characters, and how younger readers seem to have a harder time entering a past time period where gender roles are different.
You might even hear about the Queen skydiving into the 2012 London Olympics (or did she?...)