The best Megan Clawson book yet! Regally Blonde/Kilted Lovers (title is showing as both right now!), is a romcom set mainly at Balmoral. Lady Alice Walpole, niece of the King, is bored of life in London. The parties are full of boring posh folk, the topics of conversation are shallow and she is hounded by the press every time she steps out of line, or even appears to be doing something newsworthy.  She is caught partying a little too hard with her latest crush, Atticus, and her parents decide to send her to Balmoral for the summer until the media forget what happened. There she meets a cantankerous housekeeper called Mrs B, a chatty maid called Sophie and her mornings begin with a bagpipes wake up call from Piper Fraser Bell.  

The setting for this one is obviously still regal, but unlike her last two books, we do not return to the Tower of London, but the altogether more scenic Scotland.  And with that comes gorgeous scenery, swimming in lochs and riding off on horseback, which really gives this story a few more dimensions, I loved the characters, particularly Sophie who is everything you'd want a true friend to be. Yes, the romance is all a bit 0-100 in a few chapters, but at least they all loveable and the character growth from Lady Alice becoming Ally makes the suspension of belief worthwhile. 

There's a lot of talk about mental health, coping with the stigmatism around depression and defining self worth, which really gives this book a bit more oomph than just a romcom. A great read, with loveable characters, a great location and plenty of heart. Oh and a cameo from Theo in Love at First Knight too! I just hope we get to see Sophie pop up again. 

Thanks to Netgalley and Avon for a free ARC in return for an honest review.