Alex Claremont-Diaz

Alex Claremont-Diaz is the charismatic, politically ambitious First Son of the United States in Casey McQuiston's novel Red, White & Royal Blue — the son of the first female American president, whose public rivalry with Prince Henry of England is revealed to be something considerably more complicated when they are forced into a staged friendship for diplomatic purposes. Alex is written with the specific energy of someone who cares intensely about politics and policy and is also a twenty-two-year-old figuring out who he is.

McQuiston writes Alex's bisexuality as something he arrives at during the novel rather than something he has always known — his realization that his feelings for Henry are romantic rather than simply complicated is handled with genuine psychological specificity rather than the clean revelation of retrospectively obvious identity. His process of understanding himself is one of the novel's most warmly written elements.

Red, White & Royal Blue became a phenomenon when it was published in 2019, a genuinely joyful queer romance that offered its readers the specific pleasure of imagining a world where this kind of love story is possible at the highest levels of political life. The Amazon Prime Video film adaptation starred Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine.

A standalone novel.