Alex And Henry Are Back, And Their “Red, White And Royal Wedding” Is Getting Spicier
Good news for anyone who fell hard for Alex and Henry the first time round. Casey McQuiston has promised the sequel to Red, White and Royal Blue will be “a couple degrees spicier than the first movie.”
Speaking at Prime Video’s first Obsessed Fest in Los Angeles in late June, the author, who co-wrote and executive produced the film, said the follow-up settles into the couple’s life after the happy ending.
The reason is simple. Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry are no longer sneaking around in an enemies-to-lovers standoff. They are together, and the story moves in with them.
“There’s definitely more domesticity in this movie, because, you know, they’re together now,” McQuiston said. “So you get to see a little bit of their life at home.”
The intimacy, they added, has been “dialled up in a way that is really beautiful and really fun to watch.”
That focus on the after-ever-after is rarer than it should be. Plenty of romances end the second the couple gets together. This one hands two men a marriage and asks what happens next.
Who’s coming back?
The leads are locked in. Nicholas Galitzine returns as Prince Henry and Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex, the First Son of the United States, reuniting one of the most swooned-over screen couples of recent years.
Uma Thurman, Stephen Fry, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Hilson and Clifton Collins Jr are back too. Among the new faces are Lena Headey and Chloe Fineman, plus Henry Ashton, Alex Høgh Andersen and Aneesh Sheth.
A very queer hire behind the camera
Here’s the detail that got fans talking. Jamie Babbit, who made the 1999 cult favourite But I’m a Cheerleader, is directing. Matthew López, who directed the 2023 original, co-wrote the script with McQuiston and novelist Gemma Burgess and stays on as a producer.
Filming wrapped in March after a London shoot, with Perez posting a set video captioned “You’re done.”
When can we watch?
No release date yet. Industry watchers are tipping late 2026 or early 2027. One thing to keep straight for the book lovers: McQuiston’s new novella, Red, White and Royal Blue: The Private Correspondence, out on 1 December, is book canon and, in the author’s words, “totally unrelated to the film sequel.”
The movie is the first in the series written straight for the screen rather than adapted from the page. For a couple who started as a diplomatic disaster over a toppled wedding cake, a wedding of their own feels like the right kind of full circle.
