The Dream Before the Dream: Henry's Journals and Correspondence, 2016-20

This is for you if you read Red, White & Royal Blue and loved--and IDENTIFIED--with Henry, that brilliant, nerdy rich guy who loves Jane Austen and knows about Alexander Hamilton. What a combination.

Henry's longings and lush, literary emails were some of my favorite parts of Red, White & Royal Blue. We need more of them--and more Henry. Until a certain Mx. Casey McQuiston decides to create them, we'll have to make do with my interpretation.

What was Henry's inner world like after he first encountered a certain luscious-lashed American political son? And how was the run-up of their love story?

HISTORIAN'S NOTE: The essence of primary sources is that one can never be sure that one has identified all of them. But as far as we know, these constitute a relatively exhaustive trove of correspondence and contemporaneous notes from Prince Henry.

Our focus is on what led up to their courtship and eventual public coupledom. For ethical reasons, I have excluded the emails between Alex and Henry that were hacked and leaked in 2020. Because of the manner in which they came to light, many still believe we cannot (yet) in good conscience consume them, even as part of the historical record. Indeed, historians such as R.M. Friedman have argued that they are not part of the historical record at all because they are not relevant to the events of the 2020 presidential campaign.

-Robert Pessoa
Hanover, New Hampshire