10 top royal love stories

8. "Freddy and Fredericka," by Mark Helprin

This thinly veiled satire of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana may not have much historic veracity (Helprin sends the oddly matched couple on a secret mission to conquer the United States) but it offers many more laughs than the actual royal union which inspired it.

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