Red White and Royal Blue Bookmark | LGBTQ Romance, Casey McQuiston Fan Gift

History made. On our terms. For every reader who finished this novel and felt simultaneously swoony and politically hopeful and completely certain that those two feelings belong together and always have. This is the bookmark for the reader who fell completely in love with a love story set against the backdrop of two great nations and an ocean between them and a rivalry that was never really a rivalry and a correspondence that got increasingly honest in both directions until there was no going back and no desire to. The First Son. The Prince of Wales. The emails that crossed the Atlantic. The book recommendation that was also a declaration. The wrong fork at the state dinner that started everything. History made. On their terms. On ours. ✦ ABOUT THIS BOOKMARK A richly illustrated scene that moves from the grandeur of two great nations at the top through the private world of the love story in the center and arriving at the warm golden resolution at the bottom — one single continuous immersive illustration that contains the full emotional and political world of this novel rendered as one unified visual experience. At the top the two worlds rendered side by side without a dividing line — the White House in warm pale stone catching the Washington DC afternoon light on the left, a royal residence in warm honey stone catching the London morning light on the right, the American flag and the Union Jack present as color and architecture rather than symbol, the grandeur of two institutions that were not supposed to touch each other in this particular way and touched anyway. Moving through the composition the official world gives way to the private one — a state dinner place setting with the wrong fork being used because someone is nervous, a champagne glass picked up and set down more times than strictly necessary, a note passed under the table that is either furious or fond and possibly both. The threshold between the public life and the real life, between the role and the person inside it. The center of the bookmark is the correspondence — the love story told through the emails and the letters and the printed pages that crossed the Atlantic when the distance was the only thing keeping two people from saying what they needed to say. A laptop open to a thread that has been going on for months and that both parties have read many times. A printed email folded and worn at the creases from being carried in a pocket because it was the kind of email you print because some things need to exist on paper. Historia de Dos Ciudades — A Tale of Two Cities in Spanish — resting beside the laptop catching the warm amber light, the most romantic book recommendation in recent literary history present and accounted for. The red and blue of the novel's world run through the center of the composition as personal intimate colors — a red tie draped over a chair back, a blue blazer on the chair seat, the colors belonging to the people rather than the institutions. The rainbow prismatic light scatters warm and full from a crystal glass catching the afternoon sun across the desk and the laptop and the printed email and everything that matters most in this composition. The lower portion of the bookmark arrives at the resolution — the official world and the personal world no longer in opposition, a garden at golden hour where two people might stand beside each other in public for the first time, the Atlantic between them now a connection rather than a distance, the grandeur of the institutions present but secondary to the warmth of the people within them. History made. On our terms. The only terms that matter. ✦ BOOKMARK DETAILS — Size: 2.05 inches wide by 6.65 inches tall — Printed on premium card stock — Laminated for durability — water resistant and long lasting — Full color illustration front with matte finish — Arrives ready to use in your current read or to give immediately to the person you thought of the moment you read the tagline ✦ PERFECT FOR — Every reader who finished Red White and Royal Blue and needed a moment afterward — LGBTQ+ readers and allies who love a romance that is also genuinely funny and genuinely political and completely unashamed of being all three — Fans of Casey McQuiston and their entire extraordinary catalog — Readers who printed an email once because it was that kind of email — you know who you are — Anyone who has ever given someone a book recommendation that was also a declaration — Political romance readers who believe love stories set against history in the making are the most urgent love stories — Pride month gifts — this is one of the great Pride novels and this bookmark honors it completely — Birthdays — specifically the birthday of the friend who put this book in your hands and changed your reading life — Holiday gifts — the reader on your list who has very specific and very correct feelings about fictional princes — Treating yourself — you have earned this and Historia de Dos Ciudades agrees ✦ A NOTE ON THE TAGLINE History made. On our terms. is doing three things simultaneously and all three of them are the point. It is the political statement — two young men who are going to be part of history regardless and have decided to be part of it honestly and on their own terms rather than the terms the institutions they were born into had prepared for them. It is the romantic statement — a love story made on their terms rather than the terms the world set, the choice to be exactly who they are in a world that had very specific ideas about who they were supposed to be. It is the LGBTQ+ statement — the broader truth that resonates with every reader who has ever had to choose between the terms they were given and the terms they claimed for themselves. History has always been made by people who refused the terms they were handed. This novel understood that. This bookmark honors that understanding. Three meanings. Four words. Every reader of this novel will feel all three before they finish reading the tagline. ✦ A WORD ABOUT THE PRINTED EMAIL One of them printed an email. It was the kind of email you print. It was carried in a pocket. The creases are worn soft from being folded and unfolded. Every reader of this novel knows exactly which email. Every reader of this novel completely understands printing it. Some readers of this novel printed it themselves. This bookmark is for all of them. ✦ A WORD ABOUT HISTORIA DE DOS CIUDADES It was a book recommendation. It was also a declaration. It was also the most romantic thing that has ever been done with a Charles Dickens novel and Dickens would have been honored. The book is in the composition catching the afternoon light. The message it carried is still traveling. Some recommendations change everything. This one did. ✦ ALSO IN OUR SHOP This bookmark is part of our LGBTQ+ literary collection alongside The Truth Collection honoring The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, our Fried Green Tomatoes LGBTQ+ bookmark, and our broader literary collection celebrating the books and the love stories that matter most. See our shop for the full collection. Red White and Royal Blue pairs beautifully with our Evelyn Hugo Truth Collection for the reader who loves LGBTQ+ love stories that are also deeply serious about the world they exist in — the romance that understands that falling in love and believing in a better world are the same act performed by two different people in the same moment. ✦ SHIPPING Ships within 3 to 5 business days. Arrives in a protective sleeve inside a rigid mailer so your bookmark arrives perfectly flat and ready to use. Consider it diplomatic correspondence. It has crossed an ocean to get to you. It arrived on time. 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