Royal Wedding Books in Order

The Royal Wedding series is Rachel Hauck’s answer to the question, “What if a regular Southern girl fell in love with a prince?” Set mainly in the fictional Brighton Kingdom and on Georgia’s St. Simons Island, these novels read like contemporary fairy tales grounded in real‑world faith and family complications.

Once Upon a Prince introduces landscape architect Susanna Truitt, who expects to marry her long‑time Marine boyfriend and live a normal coastal life. Instead he breaks up with her and she meets Nathaniel, a tourist with a flat tire who turns out to be the heir to Brighton’s throne. Their friendship deepens amid political pressure, tabloid scrutiny, and the small matter of a national constitution that makes it hard for a future king to marry an American commoner.

Princess Ever After turns to Regina Beswick, a classic‑car restorer in Florida who is much more comfortable under the hood of an old vehicle than in a ball gown. She discovers she is the long‑lost heir to the Grand Duchy of Hessenberg and is thrust into diplomatic lessons, formal dinners, and the unwanted attention that comes with a crown. Minister of Culture Tanner Burkhardt must convince Regina to accept her role for the sake of the country, even as he battles his own sense of failure and old scandals.

How to Catch a Prince focuses on Prince Stephen, Nathaniel’s brother, and American heiress Corina Del Rey. Years earlier they secretly married before Stephen’s deployment to Afghanistan, only to allow grief, guilt, and royal duty to tear them apart. When paperwork they thought buried resurfaces, Stephen and Corina are forced back into each other’s lives and must decide whether their shared past is something to flee or to redeem.

A Royal Christmas Wedding brings the story full circle with Susanna’s younger sister, Avery Truitt, now grieving her father and feeling stuck. A Christmas visit to Brighton reunites her with Prince Colin, the man who once loved her and then walked away. Old traditions, including a chapel bell that is supposed to ring for true love, collide with modern expectations and media noise as Avery and Colin decide whether they have the courage to risk their hearts again.

The related novella A March Bride, collected in Spring Brides, offers a close‑up look at Susanna and Nathaniel’s actual wedding preparations and the cost of leaving citizenship and family behind for a royal role.

Throughout the series, Hauck plays with the glitter of palaces, gowns, and coronations while keeping characters firmly human. They worry about parents, struggle with callings, grieve lost comrades, and wrestle with God’s will. Readers who pick up these books can expect comfort‑read romance with a clear spiritual thread and enough political and social detail to make the fictional kingdoms feel, for a few hours, like real places on the map.