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Everyone knows who Antonio Cipriano is. As the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom and heir to the throne, his life has never belonged entirely to him. Every appearance becomes a headline, every decision is analyzed, and every relationship is expected to serve the Crown before his own heart. Attending Yale for a postgraduate program is meant to be the closest he’ll ever get to experiencing life as a normal student. She knows exactly who he is. Like everyone else on campus, she recognizes him the moment he walks into their first lecture. But unlike everyone else, she doesn’t stare, ask for a picture, or treat him differently. To her, he’s simply Antonio—a classmate who happens to have a royal title. For a man who’s spent his entire life being introduced as His Royal Highness before his own name, it’s something he’s never experienced before. And he falls for her almost immediately. Not because she ignores his title, but because she sees past it. She challenges him in class, laughs at his terrible jokes, argues with him when she thinks he’s wrong, and never hesitates to remind him that, prince or not, he’s just another student trying to survive Yale. Determined to earn her affection as Antonio—not as the future king—he begins finding every excuse to spend time with her. Study sessions become dinners, casual walks across campus become the highlight of his day, and before long, she’s the only person who makes him forget the weight of the crown waiting for him back home. She never imagined falling in love with a prince. He never imagined that the woman he’d want to marry would be someone with no royal blood, no aristocratic title, and no place in the future that had already been planned for him. Now, Antonio must choose between the life he wa