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How to Do a Royal Reboot
(2026)(The third book in the Briarbridge Island series)
A novel by Stephanie Taylor
One week. One royal estate. One family with far too many secrets to keep smiling for the cameras.
Princess Alexandra has built a new life for herself on Briarbridge Island—one with salt air, true friends, quiet mornings, and the first fragile hints of freedom. But when she is summoned back to England for Foxglove Press Week, the royal family’s annual week of staged photographs, carefully managed interviews, and forced togetherness, Alex knows exactly what awaits her.
Old resentments. Perfectly polished lies. And a husband who still believes she can be pulled back into place.
At Foxglove Court, the entire royal family gathers beneath the watchful eye of Queen Charlotte, who is determined to present a united front to the world. But behind the immaculate gardens, formal dinners, and picturesque boat rides, the family is fracturing. Prince Arthur’s mistress refuses to stay hidden. Prince Malcolm is caught in a scandal that threatens the future of the Crown. Princess Anna is making dangerous choices of her own. And journalist Willow Smyth-Jones has arrived with an invitation, a notebook, and an instinct for the stories no one wants told.
Then a long-buried chapter of Queen Charlotte’s youth resurfaces: a reckless night in 1960s London, a working-class boy named Neville Walker, and a love story that never truly ended. As Charlotte’s secrets come to light—and her carefully guarded health begins to fail—Alex starts to see the woman behind the crown in a way she never has before.
But understanding the Queen does not mean surrendering to her.
As one generation clings to duty and another reaches for freedom, Alex must decide what kind of royal, mother, wife, and woman she intends to be now.
Perfect for readers who love royal family drama, midlife reinvention, sweeping women’s fiction, complicated mothers and daughters, buried secrets, second chances, and the emotional warmth of Hope Holloway, Rachel Hanna, Jan Moran, and Elin Hilderbrand.
Genre: General Fiction
Princess Alexandra has built a new life for herself on Briarbridge Island—one with salt air, true friends, quiet mornings, and the first fragile hints of freedom. But when she is summoned back to England for Foxglove Press Week, the royal family’s annual week of staged photographs, carefully managed interviews, and forced togetherness, Alex knows exactly what awaits her.
Old resentments. Perfectly polished lies. And a husband who still believes she can be pulled back into place.
At Foxglove Court, the entire royal family gathers beneath the watchful eye of Queen Charlotte, who is determined to present a united front to the world. But behind the immaculate gardens, formal dinners, and picturesque boat rides, the family is fracturing. Prince Arthur’s mistress refuses to stay hidden. Prince Malcolm is caught in a scandal that threatens the future of the Crown. Princess Anna is making dangerous choices of her own. And journalist Willow Smyth-Jones has arrived with an invitation, a notebook, and an instinct for the stories no one wants told.
Then a long-buried chapter of Queen Charlotte’s youth resurfaces: a reckless night in 1960s London, a working-class boy named Neville Walker, and a love story that never truly ended. As Charlotte’s secrets come to light—and her carefully guarded health begins to fail—Alex starts to see the woman behind the crown in a way she never has before.
But understanding the Queen does not mean surrendering to her.
As one generation clings to duty and another reaches for freedom, Alex must decide what kind of royal, mother, wife, and woman she intends to be now.
Perfect for readers who love royal family drama, midlife reinvention, sweeping women’s fiction, complicated mothers and daughters, buried secrets, second chances, and the emotional warmth of Hope Holloway, Rachel Hanna, Jan Moran, and Elin Hilderbrand.
Genre: General Fiction
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