![]() ![]() ![]() Vogue spoke with Cocks and Morgan by phone about their uncanny habit of predicting real-life drama, the royal fantasy of becoming normal, and how the monarchy will fare under future King Charles.Ĭocks: The whole time that we were working on The Heir Affair, and then after we turned it in, we were like, ‘Nobody’s going to believe that we had written most of this stuff before Megan and Harry left England.’ But if we were to totally change the plot at that point, our publisher would murder us in our beds. On Tuesday, the Fugs (as they’re known online) released the long-awaited sequel, The Heir Affair, finding the newlywed Nick and Bex in self-imposed exile, laying low to escape a wave of press scrutiny-a twist that sounds familiar after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s departure earlier this year. ![]() Mirroring real life, breakups, makeups, and shenanigans involving Nick’s naughty younger brother, Prince Freddie, ensued. It was inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance and eventual marriage, but with a twist: the royal bride, Bex, was an American studying abroad at Oxford when she met fictional heir to the throne, Prince Nicholas. Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan-aka the fashion blogging extraordinaires known as the Fug Girls-helped spark a royal-fiction boom with their best-selling 2015 novel, The Royal We. ![]()
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