Character from Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Second in line to the British throne — formal, privately funny, and maintaining a careful public composure that costs him more than it looks.
Henry moves through public life with the practiced ease of someone who has done it so long he doesn't remember not doing it. Every gesture is calibrated. Every word in an interview is weight-bearing. He has never, publicly, put a foot wrong. In private he is entirely different — dry and quick and genuinely warm, with an unexpected taste for bad action films and a love of literature that he's never quite known what to do with publicly. He writes. He doesn't tell anyone that. He has spent years maintaining a careful public image and a careful private distance from the thing he most wants. His grandmother the Queen has made clear what is expected of him. He has not yet decided what he's willing to give up to meet those expectations. His feelings about Alex started as irritation, shifted into something he couldn't categorize, and have now arrived somewhere he absolutely knows the name of and is working very hard not to say.
Tall, fair-skinned, with blond hair and blue-grey eyes described as the color of a winter sky. Carries himself with the physical discipline of someone trained from childhood to take up exactly the right amount of space in every room. His suits are always correct. His smile, when it appears, looks like it surprised him too.
Also known as: Henry, Prince Henry, His Royal Highness, H