FirstPrince

FirstPrince is the slash ship between Prince Henry and Alex Claremont-Diaz from the Red, White & Royal Blue fandom.

Canon
The first time Henry and Alex meet is at the first night party for the climate conference in Melbourne. A misundertanding during Alex's introduction to Henry, leads the two of them to start a rivalry. This only gets worse by the media putting the two against each other and comparing Alex to Henry, claiming he'll never "reach his level." The next time they meet, much later, is at the royal wedding of Henry's brother, and since Alex is the president's son, he was also invited. But their rivalry leads to them fighting to the point of falling into a very expensive wedding cake. This then becomes an international scandal. And the president of the United States, Alex's mother, and her team really need for him to get on a better term with Henry after this, since she's up for reelection and they don't want international relations going the way that they go. And so they mutually on both sides, on both the president's side and on the prince's side, agree to essentially do a long media campaign that demonstrates how close and how friendly they are with each other. So they go on several different interviews and they even go and see children in the hospital together. There, they think that there's an active shooter, so they're both pushed into a closet. And that's where Henry asks Alex, "Why don't you like me?" Alex explains that he overheard Henry speaking negatively about him at a party and has held a grudge ever since. Henry apologizes to Alex for his statements and they start to begin having more of a positive interaction.

When Alex goes back to the United States, they start texting back and forth with each other, getting closer. And some of these texts are kind of flirtatious. At the same time, Alex is starting to become disenchanted with his role as the president's son, and he wants to really start doing something that gives him purpose. Amimdst all of this, the character of Miguel, a journalist who, at some point Alex had a intimate relationship with, that left Miguel kind of frustrated by the fact that it didn't turn into more, it's introduced. Alex invited Henry to his New Year's party and he showed up. When Henry comes to the party, it's very clear that he's not used to the sort of partying that he's doing, since he's just really there to interact with Alex, who he now has a crush on. However, the night is ruined when, during the New Year's kiss portion of the party, Alex ends up kissing some girls. Henry storms out of the party and Alex goes to find him and asks him what's wrong. And it's at that moment when Henry pulls him in for a very intimate kiss, a confusing kiss that he doesn't really know what to do with. So to try and break the tension of this kiss that he wasn't expecting, Henry ends up walking away and starts ignoring Alex after the party.

Alex is left confused. He confesses to his friend Nora that he's only really been with a few guys before. But he's interested in Henry and doesn't exactly know what to do with these emotions and feelings, especially because he is the president's son, and attached to that is a certain image that he has to uphold. So the White House has another event and Alex really wants for Henry to show up, and he's really nervous about whether or not he's going to be there. So at the party, as he's scanning the room looking for Henry, Miguel walks up to him and tries to have a conversation with him about the memo that he wrote. He said that he had looked over it and he really liked some of the ideas that he had. And he's obviously saying this to Alex because he's interested in him, while Alex doesn't even really look at him. Later, Henry does eventually show up and when he does, Alex walks over to him and says that he would really like to talk to him. So the secret service opens up a little room where they go and have a conversation. They start awkwardly interacting and this reunion leads the two to passionately kiss each other. And after this, they start having a conversation about this new-found feelings they have for each other. And they're both very nervous about being open about it. So they decide to keep it very, very casual. During this conversation, Alex also shares that he is bisexual, while Henry clarifies that he is very gay.

Later, Henry invites Alex to come to Paris to watch him play polo. And they get a hotel room, right in front of the Eiffel Tower. The two of them have a very emotional moment, getting intimate and close with each other, and after having sex, they have a conversation about what sort of person they would be if they were not in the position they were in, if they didn't have to worry about their relationship being secret. When Alex later gets back to the United States, it's revealed that Miguel released the internal memo that Alex wrote about Texas, and his mother is incredibly upset about it. Because this is a reelection year for her, she really doesn't want any controversy. And so the fact that this was released is a potential controversy, and it's pretty obvious that Miguel only released this internal memo because Alex had moved on and wasn't responding to his flirtation. This internal memo leaking inspires Alex's mother to actually read it (when she didn't before), and it turns out that she really likes a lot of Alex's ideas, so he becomes an official part of her reelection campaign.

So Alex goes to Texas and he finally starts to have a feeling of purpose in his life. Meanwhile, through it all, he is still remaining in contact with Henry and sending him a bunch of letters about all of the things that he's going through, but he makes it clear that he really, really misses him. Alex flies to New York to give a huge speech about his mother being reelected and Henry decides to show up to support him and spend time with him. When Alex gets back to his hotel, Miguel is waiting at the hotel bar for him and Alex clearly doesn't want to talk to him. He's very pissed that he did what he did and he wants nothing to do with him. When Henry eventually arrives at the hotel, Alex turns around and walks with him up to his hotel room, which of course makes Miguel quite suspicious. They later have another romantic and intimate moment together, and in the morning they get caught by a woman working on his mother's campaign. This causes Alex to eventually have a conversation with his mom about being bisexual, and his mom is so accepting and chill about it all. At the end of the conversation, she makes it incredibly clear that she loves him, that she accepts him, but she makes him promise to tell his father.

They all go on vacation in Texas. And Henry comes along and while Henry is performing karaoke, it becomes incredibly clear that Alex is in love with him as he starts looking at him very fondly and he clearly wants to confess his love to him. So as they're both sitting out in the middle of the lake shore, Alex decides that he wants to confess his love for Henry. And before Henry even hears the phrase, "I love you," he jumps in the water, swims to the shore, gets in a car and flies back to the UK, once again ignoring Alex for some time. So then Alex decides to get on a plane and fly all the way to the UK to confront Henry. And when he does, Henry makes it clear that the reason why he ran away was because he feels like there's no way for him to actually be in this relationship because he has to be closeted because of the huge expectation he has as a prince. And so Alex comes to a compromise: it's clear that they both love each other, but Alex is willing to go as slow as Prince Henry is going to require when it comes to being out about their relationship. But unfortunately they don't get an opportunity to actually tell it on their own terms, because Henry gets hacked and all of the messages between them are exposed. And of course Miguel is the person who is behind the outing, taking monetary advantage of the awful thing he did by doing a media tour talking all about their relationship. Meanwhile, Henry is mortified and really struggling with being outed.

So Alex decides to hold a press conference, where he very confidently states, out loud in public, that he loves Prince Henry, that he's not ashamed of being in love with Prince Henry and that he's going to continue being in a relationship with him. Back in England, the king is having a conversation with Henry about what his responsibilities are as a prince and it's pretty clear that he wants Henry to remain in the closet because of how it's going to make the entire royal family look. But while they're having this conversation, there's crowds that are building all around the palace, and all around England, of people cheering on Henry's new relationship. And once Henry sees how accepting everyone is of their relationship, he decides that he no longer wants to be closeted. Back in the United States, despite all of the controversy, Alex's mother manages to get reelected to the presidency. And at the end of the film, it's kind of insinuated, though it's not exactly clear, that Henry flies back to the United States to be in a relationship with Alex, amd they decide to move into the vacation home in Austin, Texas.

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