Royally Screwed (Royally, #1)

by Emma Chase

It’s not our way to be overly emotional—stiff upper lip, onward and upward, the King is dead—long live the King. But while to the world they were a pair of HRHs, to me and Henry they were just plain old Mum and Dad. They were good and fun and real. They hugged us often, and smacked us about when we deserved it—which was pretty often too. They were wise and kind and loved us fiercely—and that’s a rarity in my social circle.

I love this whole section. It conveys so much of who Nicholas is as a person. From this, we know that he is a good man - loyal, sentimental, warm and down-to-earth (as much as a prince can be) - because that is who his parents were. We would have a very different impression if he had been raised by nannies with little real involvement from his parents.